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 |
10th
June
2009
I got a chance to see Lyzasoft’s new product in action recently. Lyzasoft aims to provide a desktop product for business people to do analysis that can seamlessly scale up, unlike (say) spreadsheet based analysis. The product is based around a column store.
Workbooks are the core metaphor and these are used to assemble flows. Data [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BI, Product News |
16th
April
2009
I got an update from the folks at IDIOM recently. The founders say they got started with data modeling in the early 80s and realized this could not deliver model-driven development because the whole process thing did not work. By the 90s they had found an approach that worked as a model-driven approach but the [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Decision Management, Product News |
19th
February
2009
Syndicated from Smart Data Collective
Natasha Balac from UC San Diego and Michael Zeller from Zementis (their product was blogged here and their support for the amazon.com compute cloud was discussed here) presented on the use of Medicare and Medicaid data to detect and prevent fraud. The high computing center at UC San Diego (San Diego [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Data Mining, Decision Management |
28th
October
2008
Risk management is necessary at Sun as new products are constantly being introduced. Each time there are challenges getting information out to people. Also find the same problem repeatedly in different geographies and were challenged to share information about problems and solutions between teams. By 2001 they found over 300 user developed applications supporting risk [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules |
14th
October
2008
When I was in the UK recently I got a chance to have a coffee with Mark Proctor and get a detailed demo of the new Drools release – 5.0.
Mark spent most of the time showing Guvnor, the new web-based business rule management system for Drools. Built with GWT this looks and works great – [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Product News |
7th
August
2008
PMML – The Predictive Modeling Markup Language – is the primary XML format for describing predictive analytic models so that a modeling tool can share a model with either another modeling tool or, more usefully, with a deployment environment. The folks over at KDNuggets recently ran a poll asking their readers about their use of [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Business Rules, Data Mining, Decision Management |
20th
June
2008
Zementis has recently announced its ADAPA predictive analytics edition for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. This essentially allows you to deploy PMML (Predictive Model Markup Language, an XML format for defining predictive analytic models) on the Amazon compute cloud. Based on their Enterprise Edition (which has PMML deployment, reporting and business rules (using Drools), this [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Decision Management, Product News |
23rd
May
2008
Mike Gilpin and Noel Yuhanna gave a presentation on how informaton-as-a-service can help your projects and applications. Many SOA implementations were focused on transactional solutions but Forrester found that many used the same service infrastructure to expose information – e.g. a customer update service which exposes the current address also. Theme: Information-as-a-service (IaaS) offers to [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BI |
22nd
May
2008
Jeff Hammond’s theme for this presentation is that as enterprise experiment with web 2.0 some successful adoption patterns are emerging. There are three ways to look at web 2.0:
Enabling technologies
Flex, Air, Silverlight, XML, Ajax, cloud computing
Core applications
Blogs, wikis, social networks, tagging, rss, mashups built on these core technologies
Behavior shifts
Information workplaces, social computing, dynamic business applications, [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Decision Management |