business analytics

Tracy Altman (@EvidenceSoup), who I interviewed here, interviewed me for her blog recently. We talked decisions, decision management and analytics. You can find the interview on the Evidence Soup blog here. Enjoy.

I am presenting at a couple of evening events in July on Predictively Enabling your Organization. Sponsored by Predixion, these events will introduce you to predictive analytics and will share practical tips on how to leverage predictive analytics to improve results across your business. I’ll discuss the power of Predictive Analytics, how to get started and how to [...]

I am giving a webinar Up Your R Game with Bill Franks of Teradata on July 29th at 1pm Eastern time: Open source R is no longer a fad or a tool used in the academic world. According to the Rexer survey,* R is the analytic software of choice for data scientists, business analysts, and data [...]

I am speaking at a Predixion hosted event on Predictively Enabling Your Organization, 4-7pm on July 30 in Chicago: Predictive Analytics are something every organization wants – the potential pay-off is huge – but not every organization understands how to leverage them correctly. James Taylor, an analytics expert and author, will simplify it for you by [...]

I am speaking at a Predixion hosted event on Predictively Enabling Your Organization, 4-7pm on July 23 in Boston: Predictive Analytics are something every organization wants – the potential pay-off is huge – but not every organization understands how to leverage them correctly. James Taylor, an analytics expert and author, will simplify it for you [...]

Jim Powell just published a Q&A with me on Using Decision Management to Maximize Analytics. We covered a bunch of things: What, exactly,is decision management and what does it have to do with advanced analytics? What’s the history of decision management – where did it come from and does it work? What kind of decisions are [...]

Next up at the Alteryx Influencer Summit a discussion of their partner program and strategy. This strategy has three parts: Enable technology partner ecosystem and engage their user base Extensibility partners like Qlik, Tableau, Revolution, Salesforce Big Data infrastructure partners like Teradata, cloudera, Pivotal, Hortonworks etc. Some of these are go to market partners – Qlik, [...]

Fern Halper and I just wrapped up as hosts of the TDWI Solution Summit on Advanced Analytics. We had a great two and a half days with some wonderful case studies, a super-engaged audience and lots of intense 1:1 conversations between attendees, speakers and sponsors. To wrap up Fern and I discussed some of the [...]

We published the Decision Management Manifesto to help organizations like yours use business rules and predictive analytics effectively. The Decision Management Manifesto White Paper explains the reasoning and value proposition and now there are French, Spanish, German and Portuguese translations. So if you want to know more about Decision Management, about the core principles involved and about how Decision Management maximizes the value of [...]

I am on the advisory board of the Insurance Analytics Symposium, taking place in New Orleans this October 16 and 17. I spoke on Overcoming Barriers to Predictive Analytic Success – Before You Hit Them at last year’s and I am looking forward to this year’s also. If you have a story to tell about analytics in [...]

The second annual Decision Camp, a conference on Decision Management best practices and technologies, will be held at the eBay/PayPal Campus in San Jose, October 13 – 15, 2014.  This is a great event that is free to practitioners that got started last year with a very successful first event.  The event will feature sessions for all [...]

I am speaking at IBM’s IMPACT 2014 on The Mobile Enterprise – Driving the Need for Better Decisions & Smarter Processes (SPD-2798), Tuesday April 29 at 3:45pm The consumerization of technology in enterprises, increasingly mobile employees and the demands of more social, mobile and connected consumers are putting increased pressure on enterprises. Adopting mobile management and [...]

I recently completed some research on responding in real-time, discussing the need for both event processing and decision management in a solution. The research was sponsored by Oracle and you can see the video below: The white paper is here (registration required).

I am speaking at the SV Forum Business Intelligence SIG on Decisions First: How to stop wasting money on Big Data – April 15 at 6:30pm at SAP’s Palo Alto location. Big Data is hot. Organizations are dealing with greater volumes of data, more variety of data and data that arrives with increasing velocity. These “Big [...]

As part of the Big Data Webcast series from Oracle I will be giving a webinar on Responding in Real-Time Tuesday March 25 at 1pm ET High-volume, high-speed front-line decisions must increasingly be made in real-time with big data and analytics that are actionable and operational. How do you harness the power of big data to [...]

An associate professor at NEOMA Business School, Rouen, France is conducting a survey on how the quality of analytics influences business value, satisfaction and continuance/firm performance: Business Analytics is expected to create huge operational and strategic benefits. In this study we look at how quality of analytics influences business value, satisfaction and continuance/firm performance. The results [...]

I am co-chair, with Fern Halper,of the TDWI Solution Summit: Beyond BI to Advanced Analytics for Business Advantage in San Diego, June 1-3. Business analytics has become an important new trend for companies that want to be competitive—and stay that way. While certain kinds of advanced analytics have been on the market for decades, adoption is [...]

I first got a briefing on Dulles Research Carolina back in 2010 and I recently got an update. Dulles Research was founded in 2005 and came to market with Carolina, their SAS to Java convertor, in 2009. A U.S. patent was awarded to Dulles last year for the SAS to Java conversion process. At its [...]

If you are a data analyst, data scientist, data miner or other analytics professional you should see this. Thanks to @jimsterne for sharing!