Teradata

Top 10 analytic mistakes

October 29, 2010

Syndicated from Smart Data Collective
One of my favorite presenters, John Elder, presented his top 10 analytic mistakes at Teradata Partners.
Lack Data is problem zero – obviously you need data to do data mining and analytics. Without data that is relevant to the problem you cannot use analytics to solve it. In particular [...]

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Right Time Business Optimization

October 29, 2010

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Mike Ferguson presented on Right Time Business Optimization using on-demand and event-driven analytics at the Teradata Partners conference. Business optimization, Mike says, is about continuously knowing what is the best action to take and when to take it in every business process to dynamically keep a business [...]

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Teradata Active Enterprise Update

October 29, 2010

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Quick update from Teradata to kick off the day focused on Active Enterprise Intelligence. This remains a key theme for Teradata, unsurprising given the focus of Teradata customers on an enterprise data warehouse full of operational data. AEI is about a focus on moving from the back office to the front office – [...]

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Opportunities to meet me this fall

October 12, 2010

Show season kicked off today with RulesFest in San Jose. Great audience and good attendance for this technical show on business rules and related technology where I presented on Decision Services need more than rules. With that out of the way my schedule gets busy for a few weeks.
Next week I am giving a workshop [...]

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First Look – Cloudera

September 21, 2010

I got my first chance to catch up with the folks at Cloudera recently. Founded in 2008 Cloudera has nothing really to do with “cloud” and focuses instead on “big data” – helping organizations capture, integrate and analyze new sources of detailed business data. Cloudera like to describe themselves as the RedHat for Hadoop – [...]

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Update – SAS Model Manager

August 18, 2010

I got an update from SAS on SAS Model Manager recently. The new release came out August 17 alongside a new release of SAS Enterprise Miner and has some interesting new features. SAS Model Manager, as I noted in my previous review, supports the analytic model deployment lifecycle (from registering candidate models through validation, deployment, [...]

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New webinar – Trendspotting for growth

July 1, 2010

[ July 15, 2010; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] I am acting as host for a Smart Data Collective webinar “Trendspotting for Growth: Finding the patterns that lead to smarter action with Analytics” on July 15, 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT. You can register here and I hope to see you there.

As companies using analytics know, data is key [...]

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Teradata Active Enterprise Intelligence

April 28, 2010

Dave Schrader presented on 3 years of Active Enterprise Intelligence progress, giving the same presentation he uses to talk to customers, especially business customers. He has been showing customers that their peers have been adopting Active Enterprise Intelligence (some 146 case studies) and discussing some of the challenges (which are people problems, of course).
Active Enterprise [...]

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Teradata Customer Warner Bros Home Entertainment

April 28, 2010

Thomas Tileston of Warner Bros Home Entertainment (DVDs, games and digital distribution part of Warner Bros) was next talking about their use of SAS and Teradata. He started with a little history as he has been using SAS for 20 years or so.

In the early days analytical data set preparation was 70% of the work [...]

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Teradata Business Analytics Innovation Center

April 28, 2010

Bill Franks was up next to talk about the joint SAS, Teradata, Elder Research Business Analytics Innovation Center. The purpose of this center is to help customers develop game changing analytic solutions not just adopt analytics. The center brings together best SAS and Teradata folks to help customers with analytics while also bringing third parties [...]

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Teradata – Q&A with Stephen Brobst

April 28, 2010

Stephen Brobst, Teradata’s CTO, took open Q&A.

What’s the business and architectural impact of the temporal (and spatial) extensions in 13.10?
Most Teradata customers are doing temporal things but implementing manually today using things like effective date columns. This is hard work and the new feature makes it easier to manage, more accessible to customers (some of [...]

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Video from the Teradata event

April 28, 2010

Kendra grabbed me for a quick interview yesterday about Teradata and about what I heard from them. She has posted the video to YouTube:

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Teradata in the cloud

April 27, 2010

Dan Graham and Mike Riordan presented on Teradata’s cloud strategy. They began with a quick reminder that a cloud involves on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity and pay per use. Teradata is currently testing and developing for clouds and virtualization – Teradata Express.
They are working with amazon.com’s web services team for instance [...]

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Teradata – Coca Cola and customer intelligence

April 27, 2010

Justin Honaman from Coca Cola presented on their use of Teradata in their customer intelligence program.  Coca Cola has a huge range of products, in many sizes, as well as dozens of bottlers and distribution partners. The 72 bottlers are limited to specific geographies, adding a layer of complexity to their business. Justin’s group, Customer [...]

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Teradata – National Australia Bank and next best action

April 27, 2010

National Australia Bank group (a 15 year Teradata customer) presented on their use of Teradata for multi-channel marketing. NAB has 10.9M customers worldwide and about 38,000 staff. Brock Lynch, from the marketing group within the retail bank, gave an overview of their analytical CRM approach. NAB sees its analytical CRM assets as:

Complete customer data stored [...]

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Teradata Customer Management Portfolio

April 27, 2010

Marc Schroeder presented on Teradata’s customer management portfolio – Teradata Relationship Manager (TRM).  Clearly the move to multi-channel, customer-centric customer relati0nships and the growth in data and behavioral data particularly are driving new demands in customer relationship software. Vision:
Maximize customer profitability by enabling a comprehensive interactive marketing environment that manages intelligent customer dialogs, leverages behavioral [...]

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Teradata Database 13.10

April 27, 2010

Todd Walters introduced the new release – 13.10. Not every feature is equally interesting to me but a couple were important to note:
One of the key features in the new database release is the support for temporal tables. Default for a temporal table will be to show only current records. But you can ask simple [...]

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First Look – Oracle Data Mining

April 27, 2010

I got an update on Oracle Data Mining – the in-database solution for data mining and predictive analytics offered by Oracle – recently. They have made ODM available on the amazon compute cloud so you can easily try it and they have been doing some interesting work on a new GUI and on integration with [...]

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First Look – SAS In-Database Analytics

April 12, 2010

SAS has been rolling out its in-database and in-warehouse analytics over the last few months and I thought it was time to get an update. SAS sees its in-database strategy as one way to address some of the challenges in putting analytics to work, especially in high-volume operational environments. In-database analytics can reduce the time [...]

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Upcoming webinar on unstructured data

March 31, 2010

I am a featured blogger and member of the advisory board over on Smart Data Collective. SDC  has an interesting looking webinar coming up: “Putting all of the Pieces Together: Finding Value in Unstructured Data” happening on April 21st at 1pm EST.  Stephen Baker (author of The Numerati) and folks from Accenture, Teradata [...]

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