Events

I am giving a webinar on Wednesday, August 2, 2017 at 1:00 PM EDT about 3 Critical Elements of a Digital Business Platform Enterprises increasingly demand digital implementations that differentiate them from their competitors. Digital Business Platforms deliver this differentiation by coordinating goal-directed work and supporting the intelligent interaction of people, software, and machines. These Digital Business Platforms [...]

I am going to be at IBM InterConnect this week. I am speaking with Kaiser Permanente at 2pm on Monday – Pioneering Decision Services with Decision Modeling at Kaiser Permanente – so come by and here me and Renee speak about our successes with decision modeling with DMN (Decision Model and Notation), business rules and IBM Operational [...]

I am speaking at IBM’s InterConnect with Renee Trinidad of Kaiser Permanente on “Pioneering Decision Services with Decision Modeling at Kaiser Permanente“, 2:00pm on March 20. Kaiser Permanente is developing clinical decision support (CDS) applications that automate real-time decision services using IBM ODM. Well-designed decision services can replace existing guideline documents in all areas of [...]

I am giving a webinar on Modernizing Your Legacy Platform to Deliver an Optimal Customer Experience with FICO, Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 10:00 am Pacific/ 1:00 pm Eastern Today’s consumers expect a compelling digital experience, especially on mobile devices. To do that, organizations need the tools to develop modern, mobile and secure UIs – however, many [...]

Modelshop was founded by Tom Tobin, someone who has spent his career building analytic applications in credit origination, portfolio optimization, risk management and fraud detection for major financial institutions. Tom’s vision for Modelshop is to make the technologies that enable these types of solutions available to all organizations so they can make their analytics actionable. [...]

I have spoken at Predictive Analytics World a few times and it’s a great event. Predictive Analytics World for Business is coming up April 3-7, 2016 in San Francisco. This is one of the best events for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners. The conference focuses on case studies about data science, on their business impact and [...]

Another Think Big employee came up to talk about real-time big data especially around event analytics. Real-time, he says, is generally something happening in a second or so not minutes or hours. Might be push or pull but what matters is the time from data in to data out. Real-time responses, he pointed out,  need [...]

I am co-hosting the TDWI Solution Summit “Maximizing your Analytics Investment: Innovative Business through Predictive & Advanced Analytics” with Fern Halper, May 31-June 2 in San Diego. Join an exclusive, hosted gathering of experienced professionals, industry thought leaders, and top solution providers for real-world tips and best practices to help you harness the power of [...]

I am giving a webinar with FICO on March 25th at 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern on “Identifying the Right Analytic Capabilities in the Era of Big Data” There is an increasingly broad portfolio of analytic capabilities available to enterprises today. These range from traditional Business Intelligence capabilities like reporting and ad-hoc query to modern visualization and [...]

Steve Knode of the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) and I will be talking about how you can use Decision Modeling to specify requirements for predictive analytic projects at 2:40pm on March 31, 2015 Establishing a shared understanding of the business problem across business, IT and analytics teams is critical for successful predictive analytics projects. Recently [...]

I blogged a little about the tech preview of IBM’s Operational Decision Manager – Advanced product when I was at IMPACT and I recently got a full briefing on the new ODM Advanced release. ODM Advanced has been under development for about 2 years with early access for customers back in late 2013 and technology [...]

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 participating on a Business Process Management panel at the Siemens Innovations for Healthcare IT event in Tampa, August 10-13. I will be joined by Sandy Kemsley among others and we will be discussing the role of Business Process Management and Decision Management in addressing healthcare challenges, where we see these technologies headed in Healthcare, [...]

I am co-hosting the TDWI Solution Summit: Beyond BI to Advanced Analytics for Business Advantage with Fern Halper this week. As host it’s hard for me to write blog posts so you’ll have to make do with my twitter feed – @jamet123. It’s been a great couple of days already with lots of interesting presentations and [...]

IBM announced Smarter Process last year, pulling a number of capabilities into a single story with a particular focus on customer centricity. This year IBM’s customers are very focused on growth – 60% of them say it is their top issue, up from 41% the year before. The Smarter Process team this year is focused [...]

Some data-centric technical experts participated in a second panel at IMPACT.  There were a number o data-centric  announcements at IMPACT and they quickly recapped these announcements: New Power Systems Real-time actionable insight – capturing events and data at high speed, predicting probabilities from this data, driving this into decisions by embedding existing their Decision Management [...]

IBM has made significant investments in the mobile market in recent years. Various acquisitions and internal development efforts have resulted in a portfolio of product and service offerings under the banner of IBM MobileFirst. IBM recently summarized the state of the mobile market and its MobileFirst portfolio for analysts. It’s worth noting up front that [...]

Oracle Event Processing is designed to provide high throughput and low latency processing against continuously streaming data—what is sometimes call Complex Event Processing. It handles real-time correlation between incoming data streams, time sensitive alerts, aggregations and calculations, pattern seeking in the stream etc. Critically, especially when one is dealing with very large volumes of streaming [...]

This week’s white paper of the week is “Responsive Customer Engagement in Banking:” Relevance, real-time and recency drive improved customer engagement. Banks are facing new competitive dynamics, increasing regulatory requirements, and more demanding customers. Building share of wallet with existing customers is critical to future growth. Banks must create responsive customer engagement by delivering relevant [...]