big data

I am co-hosting the TDWI Solution Summit Putting Big Data and Analytics to Work in Your Organization with Fern Halper, June 3-5 in Coronado, California. TDWI Solution Summits are great events and I am looking forward to it. The agenda is focused on how to get full business value and organizational advantage from big data and [...]

I am going to Tokyo at the end of July to talk Decision Management, DMN and AI. The event is Monday July 24, 2017 2pm- 5pm at the Japan Education Center. I’m going to discuss Decision Management and the role of technology for Business Rules, Big Data Analytics and AI in delivering it. I’ll introduce [...]

I am teaching a tutorial at Building Business Capability 2017 on Decision-Centric Business Transformation: Decision Modeling, Monday November 6 at 1:30pm. Whether simplifying business processes; increasing straight through processing; applying big data, advanced analytics or AI/cognitive technology; or looking for dramatic reductions in time to market, many transformation opportunities require a focus on decision-making. In fact, [...]

I recently worked with Tho Nguyen of Teradata on a white paper called Illuminate Dark Data for Deeper Insights While organizations of all sizes across all industries are keen on becoming data-driven, most focus on only a fraction of the many types of available data. Not accessing a fuller spectrum of data, including those from “dark [...]

Reltio Cloud is a modern data management Platform as a Service (PaaS) company focused on delivering data-driven applications, founded in 2011 by folks from Siperian which was acquired by Informatica. Unlike most data integration and MDM platforms, which are IT-focused, Reltio’s mission to make it possible for business and IT teams in enterprises to “Be [...]

One of our clients was presenting recently at a TDWI conference and was picked up on TechTarget – Analytics teams give data science applications real scientific rigor. It’s a great article with some good tips about using a repeatable methodology like CRISP-DM, especially when combined with decision modeling as a way to capture business understanding and [...]

I am speaking at the Global Big Data Conference in Santa Clara, CA in March and participating in the keynote panel on Solving Business problems using Predictive Analytics This looks like being a great panel – Prateek Joshi (Founder, Pluto AI) is moderating and I will be joined by Feyzi Bagirov (Professor, Faculty of Analytics, Harrisburg [...]

I am speaking at the Global Big Data Conference in Santa Clara, CA in March on Don’t Apply Big Data Analytics To The Wrong Problem: Put Decisions First One of the biggest challenges for analytics Teams is effective communication with their business partners. Too many projects fail to connect problems in the business environment to [...]

Tom Davenport had a great article recently on Data Informed – “Printing Money” with Operational Machine Learning. His intro paragraph is great: Organizations have made large investments in big data platforms, but many are struggling to realize business value. While most have anecdotal stories of insights that drive value, most still rely only upon storage cost [...]

I am participating in a webinar on “The citizen data scientist: Can you democratize analytics for better business outcomes?” with Information Management, sponsored by Dell. Analytics is about better understanding customers, markets, and other phenomena that impact business performance. So while PhDs in mathematics and computer science play an important role in analytics success, employees with [...]

Last session for me at IBM’s World of Watson is the keynote from IBM CEO, Ginni Rometty. Another very slick video on the different ways IBM’s cognitive, cloud and analytic solutions are being used around the world got us started. And again, IBM emphasized “with Watson” as part of their ongoing positioning of Watson as additive to people, [...]

My colleague Gagan Saxena is presenting with Andrew Ray of Goldman Sachs on Beyond Textbooks: Building the Modern Business Architecture at this year’s Building Business Capability conference. A modern Business Architecture has been developed to align organizational change projects and to leverage new technologies. Value Streams, Capabilities, Processes, Decisions, Data, Events and Metrics have been lined up [...]

I was recently listed as one of the top Big Data/Data Science leaders on LinkedIn by KDnuggets. I was delighted to be on the list and to share it with some great thinkers and writers. My interest, as regular readers of the blog will know, is not really on how you build analytic models or apply data science techniques [...]

I recently got a chance to catch up with the IBM SPSS team for an update. Analytics, in IBM’s view and mine, are increasingly necessary as digitization increases the scale of business data and digital disruptors increase the difficulty of making good decisions. For those being disrupted analytics offers a powerful way to fight back. [...]

There is a great article from Bain and Company from 2013 that Elena Makurochkina (@elenamdata) pointed me to today – Infobesity: The enemy of good decisions. This is not only a fabulous phrase – infobesity feels viscerally correct as soon as you see it – but a great article too. Some quotes: Companies have overindulged in information. Some [...]

I am co-hosting TDWI’s Solution Summit on Business Innovation through Analytics and Big Data Architectures with Philip Russom, April 10-12 in Savannah, GA Business, analytics, and big data are colliding to create new and innovative ways of running a business, regardless of organizational size or industry. From one direction, organizations are collecting data from new sources, [...]

Predictive analytics is a powerful tool for managing risk, reducing fraud and maximizing customer value. Those already succeeding with predictive analytics are looking for ways to scale and speed up their programs and make predictive analytics pervasive. But they know there is often a huge gap between having analytic insight and deriving business value from it – predictive [...]

I am giving a webinar on Predictive Analytics Deployment to Mainframe or Hadoop with Mike Zeller of Zementis on Thursday, March 3, 2016 11:00:00 AM PST The big challenge for analytics-driven organizations today is closing the gap between deriving an analytic result and getting the ROI. Organizations need a consistent and efficient way to deploy analytic results [...]

I got an email today from a doctoral student trying to complete their dissertation. They are looking for 10 or so participants to complete data collection for a study on The Role of Data Governance Mechanism in Managing the Big Data Environment. If you’re interested, please contact Stephanie by email for more information: Stephanie Cutter sstreich@capellauniversity.edu