22nd
June
2009
I got a briefing from ID Analytics recently – mostly to catch up on their new service for consumers My ID Score (https://myidscore.com).
ID Analytics has historically been focused on B2B services – helping companies identify applications that are potentially fraudulent. They have an ID Network that collects information from 6 of the top 10 credit [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Product News |
11th
June
2009
Angoss has just released a new version of their data mining and predictive analytics software, version 7.0. Key themes for 7 were:
Optimization
Mining enhancements like data weighting, in-database analytics, new statistics
Support for more complex IT environments
Usability
Angoss has long supported the development of strategies or decision trees – models that define the relevant customer segments for a [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Data Mining, Product News |
1st
May
2009
SPSS Inc. likes to say they focus on helping customers capture all the information they need, predict outcomes and then, using their Decision Management products, act on these insights by embedding analytic results into business processes. Within this family, the PASW Decision Management tools add actions, business rules, to analytics to enable action to be [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Data Mining, Decision Management |
22nd
April
2009
Delta-R’s product onRules is Java-based, service oriented application. Based on open source like the Spring, Hibernate, Java Server Faces r UI, Groovy for scripting etc. It is fully web based – thin client – and the resulting services are deployed as web services. It is available in English and Spanish.
The software starts with a tree/pane [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Business Rules, Decision Management, Product News |
5th
March
2009
Continuing some posts on next generation warranty systems in the build up to speaking at the Warranty Chain management conference I thought I would contrast how current generation warranty systems handle critical decisions with how next generation systems do so.
Decision
Today
Next Generation
Is Claim Valid?
Data validation rules are coded into the user interface that captures [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Business Rules, Data Mining, Decision Management |
20th
February
2009
Syndicated from Smart Data Collective
This session was a panel discussion on the cross-industry challenges and solutions in predictive analytics. Panel sessions are tough to blog so here are some highlights.
More and more analysts are having to do their own extract, transform, load work to access databases so having modeling tools that handle this, rather than [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Business Rules, Data Mining, Decision Management |
20th
February
2009
Syndicated from Smart Data Collective
Khosrow Hassibi of KXEN and Will Tangalos of Wells Fargo presented together on the challenges of predictive analytics in the real world and on Wells Fargo as an example of how some of these challenges can be met. Khosrow began with an overview of the basic predictive analytic tasks:
Understand the business [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Data Mining, Decision Management |
19th
February
2009
Syndicated from Smart Data Collective
I am blogging live from Predictive Analytics World on behalf of SmartData Collective. Hopefully there will also be some podcasts. First up is Eric Siegel, program chair and President of Prediction Impact for the event.
Eric defines predictive analytics as “business intelligence” technology that produces a predictive score for each customer or [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Data Mining, Decision Management |
3rd
February
2009
Joe McKendrick pointed me to a story on ABC News today - ‘Good Morning America’ Gets Answers: Some Credit Card Companies Financially Profiling Customers. The story is worrying and has some good reporting in but, as usual, the analytics behind the whole thing are poorly described.
So, first things first. The headline gets us off on [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Data Mining |
3rd
December
2008
Marty Gubar presented on Deliver Depper Insight by Combining Data Mining and OLAP. Marty presented on Oracle’s analytic spectrum and how OLAP and Data Mining fit and can be combined. OLAP and data mining are embedded in the Oracle database and share security, the partitioning, ETL etc. All can be accessed using PL/SQL so cubes [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BI, Data Mining |