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We are in the middle of updating our Predictive Analytics in the Cloud research (if you haven’t taken the survey yet, please do so now) so I thought I would give you a link to the previously published research – Predictive Analytics in the Cloud 2011. There are two key white papers you can download: [...]

We would really like your input for our 2013 survey on Predictive Analytics in the Cloud – Use Cases, Trends and Big Data. Back in 2011 we did a survey and associated research on the use of predictive analytics in the cloud. While it may not seem like that long ago, back then predictive analytics was [...]

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 [...]

Mychelle Mollot kicked off day 2 of the Analyst Insights event discussing the analytic skills gap. Only 1 in 10 organizations, she says, feel they have the tech skills they need while 3 in 4 students feel they lack the skills they need. Meanwhile 72% of academic institutions believe they generate employable graduates but only [...]

Now time for a panel of IBMers focused on innovation moderated by John Hagerty. Some topics from the panel: IBM Research A big part of innovation at IBM is their focus on research. IBM research creates strategic initiatives driven by a Global Technology Outlook. This same technology outlook drives some “big bets” on things like [...]

Another customer panel followed focused on big data and analytics use cases with a particular focus on streaming data, data in motion. Customers were University of Ontario Institute of Technology and Aginity. Dr Carolyn McGregor from UOIT is someone I have blogged about before. Her focus was on using analytics to process the data from [...]

Larry Rosenberger, FICO Research fellow, ex-FICO CEO and generally fascinating analytic thinker was up next to discuss analytics and the internet of things. For all the “speculative” in the title, Larry things the whole area of the internet of things is becoming more real and less speculative. Larry began by defining the internet of things. [...]

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 [...]

Syndicated from my blog on the International Institute for Analytics Site IIA is talking about analytics entering a new era, Analytics 3.0, The Era of Impact. What is Analytics 3.0? According to IIA, Analytics 3.0 marks the stage of maturity where leading organizations realize measurable business impact from the combination of traditional analytics and big data. High-performing companies [...]

Michael Karasick from the Almaden lab came up next to discuss Big Data and its role in the IBM research agenda. Almaden’s mission is “science and data to extend human capability.” IBM invests heavily in 12 research labs around the world and focuses on pure research as well as R&D for products. Once a year [...]

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 [...]

I was checking up on Predictive Analytics World and one is coming up in my neck of the woods next month – San Francisco April 14-19. This looks like being a great conference including sessions from my friends Anthony Goodbloom of Kaggle, Dean Abbott of Abbott Analytics and John Elder of Elder Research – both [...]

Version 3 of our widely read report on Decision Management System platform technologies is now available. Many thousands of people have downloaded this report since we started publishing it – remember it is free to download and share. This release contains a large section on use cases, giving lots of examples of Decision Management Systems and [...]

It’s that time again – time to take the Rexer Analytics survey so we can see what’s happened in the world of data miners over the last year. You can take the survey here: www.RexerAnalytics.com/Data-Miner-Survey-2013-Intro.html and use access code: NT1F2 I always find this survey really useful. It’s important to know that it is aimed at all [...]

I recently spent some time with the Bosch Software Innovations team (makers of Visual Rules, recently reviewed on the blog) and one of the topics of discussion was the Internet of Things – an area of research of great interest to Bosch as a whole. As Wikipedia puts it this refers to “uniquely identifiable objects (things) [...]

Stephen Gold came up next to talk about Watson. Watson is transitioning from a proof of concept – a grand challenge project – to a business solution. This is being driven primarily by the rapid expansion in unstructured, uncertain data. Not just a need to process new data sources, also about being able to reason [...]

I will be participating in the Analytics Executive Symposium being run on June 26th in Chicago by the International Institute for Analytics of which I am a faculty member. The Analytics Executive Symposium is a unique and professional gathering of analytics champions who come together to hear and discuss the latest findings and research in analytics. The [...]

I recently participated in an article in the Teradata magazine – A Beautiful, Cloudy Forecast – based on our research on predictive analytics in the cloud. As the article says: The basic value proposition of predictive analytics in the cloud is clear: Organizations can make predictive analytics more scalable, more pervasive and easier to deploy. For [...]

Brenda Dietrich from IBM research wrapped up the morning with a discussion of some of IBM’s research. This involved both managing uncertain data at scale and driving analytics for this data. Projects cover systems of people, the future Watson, Outcome-based business and resilient business and services. As everyone knows there’s a lot more data out [...]