information management

Mark Clare, the Global Head of Data/Information Management and CDO at HSBC, came up next to be interviewed by Jill Dyche of SAS. Mark has been a CDO previously and took his latest role in large part because it is a business role focused on driving data into the operations of several division. He and [...]

Information Management just published my latest column An Analytics Capability Landscape discussing our recent research on decision-led, role-centric, style-based selection of analytic capabilities.

I am giving a webinar November 20 [New Date] at 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern with Information Management magazine on Analytics Maturity Curve or Landscape? What’s the difference between the various analytic capabilities? How do I map available analytic capabilities to my business needs? What’s the right combination of capabilities for me now and in the future? [...]

I recently gave a webinar on the results of our Predictive Analytics in the Cloud research (you can watch a replay here on Information Management). During the webinar we had some great questions and, as I did not get to all of them, I promised to write a blog post to address them. Meanwhile the [...]

There’s just a day left before we present the results of our Predictive Analytics in the Cloud 2013 survey and research. The webinar is on Tuesday October 22 and is hosted by Information Management – you can register for it here. It’s entitled Predictive Analytics in the Cloud 2013 – Opportunities, Trends and the Impact of [...]

A couple of weeks ago I posted a sneak peek of some of the results from our survey on Predictive Analytics in the Cloud. With a week to go until the results webinar over on Information Management I thought I would post a few more. If you want to see the webinar or a recording of it, [...]

First, there’s still time to take our survey on Predictive Analytics in the Cloud – just go to www.surveymonkey.com/s/PACloud2013. If you have already taken it, or even if you haven’t, why not register for the results webinar over on Information Management? To encourage you to do either or both of these things, here are some sneak peek [...]

I am giving a webinar on Predictive Analytics in the Cloud 2013 – Opportunities, Trends and the Impact of Big Data with Information Management, October 22 at 9am ET. Are you using or considering using predictive analytics in the cloud to improve your business? Is the growth in big data impacting your decision? Predictive analytics and [...]

Information Management just published my latest column – Performance Management or Just Performance Monitoring? I am often struck by the investments companies make in monitoring their performance without any matching investment in being able to manage the systems that drive that performance. Decision Management and Performance Management should be a pair, driving true business cockpits. Enjoy.

Les Rechan and Niel Isford came up to wrap up the first day to talk about IBM’s focus on Client Experience. The products, as was noted earlier, are focusing on being Easy, Simple and Fast to make them easier to consume. From a licensing perspective IBM is working with clients on an IBM Unlimited License [...]

Fred Balboni came up next. Fred, of course, was early in IBM’s Business Analytics and Optimization service line with its unique focus on analytics. This service line has grown to 9,000 consultants and has conducted thousands of – 30,000 – analytics engagements. Fred began with a little history. ERP, he says, took about 20 years [...]

I am a faculty member for the International Institute for Analytics and recently published two new briefs on how to use decision requirements modeling in the successful application of analytics, especially (but not solely) more advanced analytics such as data mining or predictive analytics. Decision Discovery for a Major Business Function This outlines how an organization [...]

Tim Vincent, CTO of Information Management, came next to talk about DB2 with BLU Acceleration. He began by identifying several different kinds of workloads and scenarios that the new solution is designed to address and pointed out the context for this is rapidly changing hardware capabilities and pricing. Memory prices are falling,bandwidth inside machines is increasing, [...]

I am attending the IBM Big Data Management launch today and will do my best to blog it as it happens. Steve Mills, on video, kicked things off. Steve began by pointing out that the price performance boost of recent years has made a whole new class of use cases reasonable. In particular more data [...]

Russ Cobb and Randy Guard came up to walk us through a day in the life of a marketing department: Problem identification by the CMO Discovery and segmentation by the marketing analyst Campaign design and execution by the campaign manager Optimization and social listening by the campaign manager and marketing analyst Results for the CMO Randy [...]

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 [...]

I was poking around on Information Management this week and I realized that my article Predictive Analytics: Making Little Decisions with Big Data was both one of the editors’ favorite stories of 2012 and one of the top 10 stories in 2012 in terms of readership interest. So thanks everyone – much appreciated! If you missed it, why not [...]

Big Data is a big topic these days. The combination of predictive analytics and Big Data should create new opportunities for more specific, future-oriented analysis of large amounts of data to create actionable insight. Yet most organizations are not combining predictive analytics and Big Data in this way and I think this is because they are trying [...]