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I am giving a webinar at 10 am Pacific/1pm Eastern April 11, 2013 on Operational Customer Interaction Analytics A fundamental transformation in how customers and companies interact around products and services is underway as the social, mobile and informed customer expects personalized and relevant interactions at every touch point. Companies must establish relevant engagement with their [...]

I have been getting a bit behind with my blogging and tweeting recently but I was struck by a comment on Howard Dresner’s thread (@howarddresner) based on preliminary results from his survey (http://wisdomsurvey.com). #BetterDecisionMaking (so far) is the top goal for #BusinessIntelligence – wisdomsurvey.com #BIWisdom — Howard Dresner (@howarddresner) March 8, 2013 and Boris Evelson [...]

SmartData Collective is  looking for a Community Manager. I really like the work they are doing and if you are interested in data, analytics, BI etc this could be a fun gig. They are looking for someone who can handle: Original content and content strategy: Interviews with thought leaders (skype or in person) Coverage of events [...]

Keith transitioned into talking about Data Management. He begun by pointing out that better business decisions rely on data – you need data in the right place, at the right time, in the right form to the right people (or, I would add, systems). As companies by more SaaS packages to run their business, this [...]

Jim Davis kicked off the annual SAS analyst event. SAS sees their work on in-memory analytics in recent years as another major change in the way companies handle data and develop analytics, especially when combined with their work on taking advantage of this with their new visual analytics interfaces. This, he says, is going to [...]

I saw this list of Top 10 CIO Business and Technology Priorities in 2013 from Gartner the other day and it caught my eye. In particular I was struck by the potential for Decision Management to impact both business and technology priorities on this list. Obviously one can tie almost anything to a priority like “Increasing [...]

SAP has recently announcement some new predictive analytic offerings. At the core are in-database predictive analytics and R integration based on SAP HANA and a new predictive modeling tool, SAP Predictive Analysis. The latter is aimed to close the gap between “pure” data miners/modelers and the business analysts that might typically use tools like SAP [...]

The move over recent years has been towards increasingly distributed processing of data, both in terms of the underlying model and in terms of the processing architectures available. More and more of this data is also streaming and SQLstream is focused on effective access to streaming big data. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San [...]

I have previously written about Angoss and its products (most recently this post on their 7.5 release) and recently got an update. As a company Angoss is focused on delivering data mining and predictive analytics to improve performance in sales, marketing and risk. They have a set of products for desktop, client/server and cloud-based and [...]

I gave a lecture as part of  7DEE on “Using Predictive Analytics to Put Big-Data to Work in Little Decisions“ The power of predictive analytics and big-data lies, perhaps paradoxically, in an organization’s smallest decisions. In this session, students will learn to focus on the day-to-day operational decisions that power business and learn how these little [...]

I am giving a keynote presentation on “Big Data, Little Decisions: Using Analytics to Improve day to day operations” at the Heliview Business Analytics Congress in Bussum, just outside Amsterdam, on October 17, 2012. As companies invest in Big Data infrastructure they are looking for ways to show a return on that data. Using business [...]

There’s a great even coming up in August for anyone looking for some online sessions on business intelligence, data warehousing and analytics. The Oracle BIWA SIG is holding its Virtual Summit 2012, two FREE days of Education, on  August 15th and August 16th. I am giving the opening keynote talking about the move from business [...]

Neil Raden of Hired Brains recently published a new report – “BI is Dead! Long Live BI! Making the Transition From Data to Decisions“. Neil and I go back a ways – he and I wrote Smart Enough Systems: How to Deliver Competitive Advantage by Automating Hidden Decisions, the first book on Decision Management, back [...]

Day 2 at the IBM Analytics Summit a little more restricted in terms of blogging with more content under NDA. The first session was an overview of the IBM analytics strategy. IBM’s Business Analytics Strategy involves solutions for customer analytics, performance management and risk analytics built on capabilities for personal analytics, Decision Management and Big [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

SAS has spent the last four years moving its partnering strategy forward – making partnering a core part of how they do business, partnering with Teradata and Accenture, and most recently a push towards 30%/$200M of first year revenue impacted by partners. Russ Cobb reported out how this has been going in terms of partners: [...]

SAS sees Information Management as being about treating data as a strategic asset. Changes in competition, regulatory environment and more are driving this to be more importance. Information Management for SAS includes Data Management, Decision Management (mixing rules and analytics to drive operational decisions in decision services) and Analytics Management (supporting what I call an [...]

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 [...]