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Webinar: Predictive Analytics in the Cloud Survey Results

October 30, 2011

[ November 10, 2011; 10:00 am to 11:30 am. ] We surveyed over 200 business and technical professionals for our study on cloud based predictive analytic solutions. Thanks to all who participated. Study findings and survey results will be presented on Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. PT, 1:00 p.m. ET, and will include short presentations from our research sponsors – Clario Analytics, FICO, [...]

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Webinar: Strategic Advantage of Focusing on Decisions

October 17, 2011

[ October 19, 2011; 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] I am giving a webinar for IBM on “Strategic Advantage of Focusing on Decisions” on 10/19/11 at 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET. I will discuss the value of becoming a decision-centric organization. Learn strategies and best practices for leveraging technology to execute operational business decisions more effectively. See how you can bridge the [...]

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New Predictive Analytics in the Cloud deliverable

September 29, 2011

We just posted a second deliverable from the Predictive Analytics in the cloud study. In addition to the position paper there is now a quick introductory webinar. Covering similar information to the position paper with some great case studies, this webinar lays out the key areas of potential for Predictive Analytics in the Cloud solutions.
To [...]

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Predictive Analytics in the Cloud survey update

September 27, 2011

Just a quick note to update you on the Predictive Analytics in the Cloud research we are conducting. We have about 100 survey results already and some interesting trends are developing in the results.
Don’t forget, if you took the survey, that the results are anonymous and you need to register at smartdatacollective.com/predictive-analytics-cloud to get the [...]

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Predictive Analytics in the Cloud position paper available

September 22, 2011

The Predictive Analytics in the Cloud research we are conducting is moving on. The survey is open for you to give us your opinion and the position paper is now available. The position paper discusses the value propositions for 5 ways to use predictive analytics in the cloud:

Pre-packaged Cloud Based Solutions
Predictive Analytics for SaaS
Predictive Analytics [...]

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Survey on Predictive Analytics in the Cloud – tell us what you think

September 20, 2011

Decision Management Solutions, the company of which I am CEO, is running a study on Predictive Analytics in the Cloud. Both Predictive Analytics and Cloud are hot topics and the intersection has tremendous potential. Whether it is using cloud-based decision management systems powered by predictive analytics, using the cloud to deliver predictive analytics to SaaS [...]

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Webinar: How to build Decision Management Systems – Part 3 Decision Analysis

August 23, 2011

[ November 29, 2011; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] Decision Management Systems are the next generation of information systems. Agile, analytic and adaptive, Decision Management Systems put business rules management systems, predictive analytics and optimization to work improving the effectiveness and efficiency of your operations. Decision Management Systems are agile – easy to change, easy to keep compliant and transparent in their behavior. They [...]

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Webinar: How to build Decision Management Systems – Part 2 Decision Services

August 23, 2011

[ October 27, 2011; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] Decision Management Systems are the next generation of information systems. Agile, analytic and adaptive, Decision Management Systems put business rules management systems, predictive analytics and optimization to work improving the effectiveness and efficiency of your operations. Decision Management Systems are agile – easy to change, easy to keep compliant and transparent in their behavior. They [...]

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Webinar: How to build Decision Management Systems – Part 1 Decision Discovery

August 23, 2011

[ September 21, 2011; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] Decision Management Systems are the next generation of information systems. Agile, analytic and adaptive, Decision Management Systems put business rules management systems, predictive analytics and optimization to work improving the effectiveness and efficiency of your operations. Decision Management Systems are agile – easy to change, easy to keep compliant and transparent in their behavior. They [...]

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Webinar Series: How to build Decision Management Systems

August 23, 2011

I will be hosting a three part free webinar series How to Build Decision Management Systems this Fall.
Decision Management Systems are the next generation of information systems. Agile, analytic and adaptive, Decision Management Systems put business rules management systems, predictive analytics and optimization to work improving the effectiveness and efficiency of your operations. Decision Management [...]

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Webinar: Active Decisions for the “Aware” Organization

August 23, 2011

[ September 29, 2011; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] I am giving a webinar on Active Decisions for the “Aware” Organization with RedHat on September 29  at 10am Pacific.

Organizations need systems that allow them to respond to fast changing conditions. These systems must be easy to change as requirements change and be able to respond to what is happening in real-time. Rules-based decision management systems [...]

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Webinar: Driving Decisions with Business Rules

August 16, 2011

[ September 15, 2011; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] I am giving a webinar on Driving Decisions with Business Rules with RedHat on September 15  at 10am Pacific.

Business rules management systems (BRMS) are a mature technology that has been available for many years. Capturing business policies, regulations and domain expertise so that they can drive system behavior is a compelling proposition. Systems that automate and [...]

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Webinar: Automating Business Rules – Avoiding 3 Common Pitfalls

May 23, 2011

[ June 7, 2011; 11:00 am to 11:45 am. ] I am giving a webinar on Automating Business Rules: Avoiding 3 Common Pitfalls with Corticon on June 7 at 11am Pacific.

Automating business rules enables organizations to make better, faster decisions.  Tremendous business gains can be achieved by improving productivity and customer service and by adapting quickly to changing market conditions. All [...]

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Increasing BPM agility and effectiveness with Decision Management

May 9, 2011

The recording of “Increasing BPM agility and effectiveness with Decision Management” is now available and you can access it by here (registration required). This webinar showed how combining BPM with Decision Management results in simpler, more agile processes and increases straight through processing and operational effectiveness.
If this topic interests you [...]

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Reminder – free webinar on Increasing BPM agility and effectiveness with Decision Management

May 4, 2011

Tomorrow, May 5th, at 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern I am giving a free webinar on “Increasing BPM agility and effectiveness with Decision Management”. Combining BPM with Decision Management results in simpler, more agile processes and increases straight through processing and operational effectiveness. I will cover how combining Decision Management with BPM:

Delivers simpler, more [...]

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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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Webinar: Increasing BPM agility and effectiveness with Decision Management

April 22, 2011

[ May 5, 2011; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] On May 5th at 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern I am giving a free webinar on “Increasing BPM agility and effectiveness with Decision Management”. Combining BPM with Decision Management results in simpler, more agile processes and increases straight through processing and operational effectiveness. Decision Management delivers a shared  framework for cross-functional business and IT collaboration creating game-changing [...]

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Podcast (and webinar) on using analytics for smarter BPM

March 1, 2011

I am participating in the ebizQ BPM in Action event later this month – I am giving a webinar on BPM and Intelligent Operations – and I recorded a podcast on this topic with Peter Schooff. If you are interested in how analytics impacts BPM you can listen to the Smarter BPM podcast and register [...]

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Webinar – The Briefing Room with Attivio

February 8, 2011

[ February 15, 2011; 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. ] I am interviewing Sid Probstein of Attivio as part of the Virtual Circle Briefing Room series on Tuesday February 15th at 4PM ET. Attivio will be talking about their unstructured text analytics capabilities and we’ll talk about how you can bring structured and unstructured data together for better analytics. Q&A with the twittersphere too.

This event [...]

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Webinar: Smarter ERP with Decision Management

February 2, 2011

Large companies rely on their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and other enterprise applications to manufacture, distribute and manage the products their customers need. The behavior of these operational systems is critical to how a company treats, and is perceived by, its customers, its partners and its suppliers. Yet these systems [...]

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