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I got an update from Tibco recently having last heard from them when I got an update on Spotfire 4. Since then they have partnered with Attivio for supporting unstructured data (4.5), added a new in-memory engine and support for in-database analytics as well as native support for R – the Tibco Enterprise Runtime for [...]

I got an update on Red Hat JBoss BRMS recently. I last wrote about them with release 5.2 back in 2011 and JBoss BRMS 5.3 is the current release and includes their support for business rules, business process and event processing (based on the Drools and jBPM open source community projects) with a repository, runtime [...]

As part of my ongoing series on Marketing Decision Management solutions I got an update from Lattice Engines recently. Lattice is focused on data-driven (analytic)business applications. The solutions combine “big data” with sophisticated predictive analytics to help companies market and sell more intelligently. Lattice was founded in 2006 and delivered their first application (a sales [...]

I last got an update on IBM’s Operational Decision Management (release 8) back in April 2012. IBM is positioning its Operational Decision Management capability as part of its Smarter Process stack, alongside Business Process Management and Case management. The ongoing focus is on managing business policies at scale and providing enterprise-class governance. With ODM 8.0 [...]

FICO has just released Model Builder 7.4, the first “Big Data” release of their analytic modeling tool (I reviewed 7.2 here and the 7.4 press release is here). Four things make this release: Text analytics and semantic scorecards High Volume Processing with Hadoop – including algorithms moved to MapReduce R Integration And drifting away from Big [...]

I recently caught up with Alteryx,Inc.,  a company focused on democratizing Big Data – on how to get better decision making and data management at scale in an era of Big Data. Alteryx was founded in 2010 (and came from the origins of a company called SRC) and has 130 employees in North America. When [...]

As part of an ongoing expansion of our ecosystem mapping to include more Hadoop-based products I recently got an update from Datameer. Datameer was founded back in 2009 by Stefan Groschupf, who was one of the original contributors to Nutch, the open source project that spun off Hadoop. Prior to starting Datameer, he and the [...]

I got an update from SAP on their Predictive Analytics products. Back in December I got a briefing on the Windows client (that went GA in November 2012) and the SAP HANA (SAP’s in-memory database) libraries related to it. SAP, like me, is seeing a lot of demand for predictive analytics with existing clients needing [...]

As part of some ongoing research on support for PMML I recently spoke with Concurrent. Concurrent is an enterprise software company focused on simplifying Big Data development on Hadoop. The company’s core product is called Cascading. This is a free, open-source, development framework for Apache Hadoop designed to let developers build sophisticated data processing applications [...]

I recently caught up with Yseop (“Easy-op”), artificial intelligence software designed to write the way a human would do helping turn analytics and other information into natural language. Yseop was founded in 2008 by a technologist and an angel investor but the product is based on over 20 years of research. Yseop is headquartered in [...]

I got an update from BigML recently – I first blogged about them back in December. BigML has continued to grow since then, opening the product to general use (you can sign up here). They now have over 4,600 users and more than 100 paying customers. The product still offers a simple interface underpinned by [...]

Adaptive Planning was founded just over 10 years ago to deliver cloud financial planning solutions. They have about 1,600 customers across all industries in 80 countries with about 400 partners worldwide. Focused on management planning, reporting, consolidation and analysis they are increasingly in use beyond the finance organization, moving into sales and other operational areas. [...]

I last got briefed by Sparkling Logic back in August 2012 and I got an update on their new Kyoto release. The new release has a big focus on the user interface and on making the information in the system more accessible. First off SMARTS now immediately shows information about new features including links to [...]

I got an update on Teradata’s Integrated Marketing Management (IMM) solutions recently as part of my ongoing series on Marketing Decision Management. These solutions have evolved from internally developed Teradata solutions as well as their acquisitions of Aprimo, eCircle and Market Helm Interactive (reviewed by me here). Several things are driving Teradata’s approach to integrated [...]

As part of our ongoing series on Marketing Decision Management solutions, I got an update from [24]7 recently. Based in Campbell, [24]7 was founded back in 2001 and is focused on helping companies deliver an intuitive customer experience. Still privately held, they were originally focused on managing contact centers, but for several years their primary [...]

I got an update from Convergys on their real-time decisioning engine recently. Convergys is a services company with 75,000 customer management employees across 69 contact centers around the world. They provide contact center outsourcing, technologies for customer contact centers and customer experience analytics. Convergys’ technologies are designed to support contact centers, covering IVR, campaign management, [...]

I got an update on Marketswitch Optimization as part of my series on marketing decision management solutions. Experian positions Marketswitch Optimization for the most advanced stage of decisioning– as clients move from profiling and segmenting their customers, to predictive scoring and business rules to optimization. They see some interesting numbers for improvement through this lifecycle [...]

I got a chance to catch up with Via Science recently [Post updated June 2014 to reflect some changes in terminology]. Via Science is focused on “Big Math” for “big data.” They see big data companies spanning from data collection to search/storage to analysis/visualization. Big Math – the category in which they like to put [...]

UPDATED 2/19/2015 for SAS® Decision Manager v 2.2 reflecting ongoing integration of capabilities into the core product as well as new features (in italics). SAS has announced its new Decision Management product – SAS® Decision Manager  – back in 2013 and it is now in version 2.2. Over recent years SAS sees an increasing focus [...]