Decision Management Product News Recap Q1 2011

Here is a recap of product news for Q1 2011

Analytics

• First Look- Eagle Eye Analytics
  • Advanced predictive modeling for the Property and Casualty insurance market
• First Look – SAS High Performance Computing
  • Distributed grid environment providing parallel job execution across multiple servers with shared physical storage
• First Look – Opera Solutions
  • Analytics service provider that aims to improve machine intelligence and couple it with human insight
• First Look – Attensity 5.5
  • Text analytics and customer experience monitoring
• First Look – Tibco Spotfire
  • Using an SOA approach, a single statistical model can be developed and then used in visual applications and/or called programmatically– “Write once call anywhere”.
• First Look – FICO Model Builder 7.1
  • Update on the new release of Model Builder, the predictive analytics workbench

Business Rules

• Decision Tables in JBoss Drools getting an update
  • New Guided Decision Table editor and Templating editor
• First Look – InRule V4
  • New release of their business rules management system, focus of this release is the authoring interface

Optimization

• First Look –  SAS/OR
  • Main areas of focus – optimization, simulation and project/resource scheduling
• First Look – Gurobi Optimization
  • New entrant in the optimization engine market  from CPLEX developers that aims to build a more transparent optimization software business model

Applications

• First Look – Conductrics
  • An agent-based decision optimization solution focused on next best action or next best message, for website, mobile or POS using machine learning
• First look – Kount
  • SaaS solution using analytics and business rules for fraud detection intra-transaction real-time
• First Look – Toovio
  • Real-time marketing “service-as-a-service” solution using analytics and business rules
• First Look – Market Helm
  • A suite of inbound marketing products designed specifically for the cloud

Analytic Infrastructure

• First Look – Ingres VectorWise
  • Focused on providing analytic infrastructure that handles the increasing volume and complexity of data so that analysis can be done on up to the second data
• Big data, big acquisition, still some big questions
  • Teradata acquires Aster Data
• An Update- SAP BI and EIM 4.0
  • A major release of BusinessObjects/SAP BI