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First Look – Rapid Insight Analytics

March 28, 2012

Rapid Insight was founded 10 years ago to develop tools that were easier for analysts to use to quickly extract meaning from data. Rapid Insight has been focused in higher education until recently and is expanding into fund raising and other areas. Rapid Insight Analytics is a pure data mining or predictive analytic workbench designed [...]

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First Look – Rapid-I

March 27, 2012

Rapid-I provides open source software for predictive analytics, data mining and text mining. Incorporated in 2006, they are based in Dortmund Germany and have been working on RapidMiner since 2001. They have over 35,000 production deployments and more than 400 customers in 40 countries. Banking and financial services is their largest market followed by Pharma [...]

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Smarter Analytics Leadership Summit Opening #smarteranalytics

March 20, 2012

Steve Mills kicked off the IBM Smarter Analytics Leadership Summit. Business Analytics matter, he says, as shown by the focus of CEOs (8 out of 10 expect complexity to increase, enterprises applying analytics are more successful etc). The need for analytics is pervasive, with every industry seeing a massive expansion in the volume of data [...]

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Embedding predictive analytics in Decision Management Technologies

March 13, 2012

We recently released the first version of our Decision Management Systems Platform Technology report. This report is available free for download from http://www.decisionmanagementsolutions.com/decision-management-technology. This version of the report focuses on four key areas (outlined in the webinar we gave recently and available in our archive here). One of these areas is embedding predictive analytics. For [...]

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First Look – Predixion Insight 2.0

March 1, 2012

I got an update from Predixion Software recently. Predixion, as I have blogged before, was founded in 2009 and is focused on disrupting the predictive analytics market by making it easier to build and deploy predictive analytics. Their core belief is that success with predictive analytics is going to require the broadening of the range [...]

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Enabling Business Analytics at SAS – Business Visualization

February 27, 2012

Four themes in business visualization:

Consumer-oriented BI
Walk up and use, understanding through visualization, self-service
Deriving value from big data
Analytics and visualization that scales with in-memory
Approachable analytics
Integration into the user’s world
Outlook, Office, mobile

The new product (coming in March) has four components:

Environment Manager for setup and monitoring
Visual Analytics Explorer for ad-hoc analysis and discovery
Visual Design for report design (web or [...]

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Enabling Business Analytics at SAS – High Performance Analytics

February 27, 2012

High Performance Analytics first. As already noted this is a key focus area for SAS.  The three pillars, remember, are:

Grid Computing
Allocating out analytic tasks to multiple processors and cores in a managed fashion.
In-Database Analytics
Using database servers for analytic computing to minimize data movement and improve performance.
In-Memory Analytics
The key area in many ways for highest end [...]

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SAS Executive Viewpoint 2012

February 27, 2012

Dr Goodnight kicked it off the executive viewpoint at the 2012 SAS Inside Intelligence session. SAS had another growth year in 2011 ($2.7B and growth of 12.1%) as Jim highlighted both its continued investment in new buildings around the world and the fact that many SAS locations around the world, and SAS overall, continue to [...]

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Here’s how a Decision Management System would manage review fraud

January 30, 2012

My eye was drawn to an article in the New York Time last week – For $2 a Star, an Online Retailer Gets 5-Star Product Reviews.  This article drew attention to the ongoing and growing problem of fake reviews. Like many of us I increasingly rely on reviews on sites like amazon.com or yelp.com to [...]

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First Look – KNIME Analytics Workbench update

January 23, 2012

KNIME is an open source data analytics product based in Zurich, Switzerland that I last wrote about a couple of years ago. They have been working away on the product since then (having started development in 2004 and released their enterprise components in 2010) and have been refining their business plan at the same time. [...]

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First Look – Quiterian

January 10, 2012

Quiterian is a Spanish company with offices in the US, Mexico and Europe. Quiterian Analytics aims to be complementary to traditional tools for reporting by helping companies get more value from their data sooner. In particular they aim to help companies anticipate the future by providing simple to use predictive analytics and by empowering users while [...]

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Definitive Report on Decision Management Systems Platforms coming in 2012

December 15, 2011

2011 has been a great year for market awareness of Decision Management as an approach and of the value of Decision Management Systems. Product, partnership, acquisition and funding announcements have enhanced the available technology. As vendors continue to improve and enhance their product offerings to fully support Decision Management this is only going to reinforce and further [...]

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First Look – Spotfire 4.0

November 14, 2011

I got a quick update on Spotfire 4.0 recently (announced today – I last reviewed Spotfire in February). This release was aimed primarily at getting analytics to a wider audience through analytic dashboards and social collaboration. As we all know, many people work with others in different locations and time zones. This requires strong context [...]

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Trends in smarter business analytics

September 19, 2011

Don Campbell, CTO Of IBM’s Business Intelligence group, presented on trends in smarter business analytics. He sees four focus areas – improving customer understanding, optimizing real-time decisions, better enterprise visibility and improved collaboration. All underpinned by managed, trusted data. IBM’s customers tell them that the 3 big challenges are

A lack of understanding of how to [...]

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First Look – JMP Pro

August 10, 2011

I got my first look at JMP recently. JMP originally stood for “John’s Macintosh Project” apparently but is now a major business unit of SAS that has operated independently since 1989. It has about 180 employees and 250,000 users worldwide. The product has long since supported both Windows and Mac platforms and is a full [...]

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IBM thoughts on Predictive Analytics Futures

June 2, 2011

IBM identified three big trends in predictive analytics that will drive some of its development efforts around predictive analytics:

New Data
New data types such as images and video as well as new sources like RFID and mobile devices must be accounted for and become part of how predictive analytics are built. Access to this data is [...]

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IBM’s Big Data Platform and Decision Management

May 24, 2011

IBM has recently announced a new strategy for bringing Big Data to the enterprise. In particular this includes InfoSphere Streams v2 (announced April 12) and InfoSphere BigInsights 1.1 announced today. Big Data is an issue, of course, largely because the amount of data available to organizations is growing rapidly. Surveys show that many managers already [...]

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Role of Business Intelligence in process improvement

April 29, 2011

Bill Gassman spoke on the role of Business Intelligence – BI – in process improvement. Bill means “big BI” – everything to do with intelligence about your business, the discipline of BI and analytics, not just a “BI” product. The road to intelligent operations he says has “haves” and “have nots” – some have BI [...]

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First Look – Information Builders

April 25, 2011

I recently got a briefing from Information Builders, an independent business intelligence (BI) and enterprise information integration/management (EIM) vendor founded in 1975. They sell their BI and EIM solutions separately, though they are increasingly selling these solutions together. They have 1,350 employees and 12,000 customer sites as well as a strong OEM portfolio. They find [...]

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Webinar: From Business Intelligence to Predictive Analytics

April 22, 2011

[ June 7, 2011; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] On June 7th, 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern I am giving a free webinar “From Business Intelligence to Predictive Analytics”. Companies are taking the next step from Business Intelligence to a truly intelligent business by integrating predictive analytics into their operations. Companies need to build on their investments in reporting, visualization and dashboards to move up the [...]

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