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The first webinar from my ongoing research into Decision Management Systems Platforms is coming up on February 16th at 10am PT – register here  for Four platform capabilities for Decision Management Systems. This webinar kicks off what will be a continuing series of webinars as our definitive report on Decision Management Systems Technology Platforms comes to [...]

The Predictive Analytics in the Cloud research we have been conducting is coming to an end. We have closed the survey having garnered over 200 business and technical professionals. – thanks to all who participated. We are going to publishing the study findings and survey results in a webinar and a white paper on November [...]

We surveyed over 200 business and technical professionals for our study on cloud based predictive analytic solutions. Thanks to all who participated. Study findings and survey results will be presented on Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. PT, 1:00 p.m. ET, and will include short presentations from our research sponsors – Clario Analytics, FICO, [...]

We just posted a second deliverable from the Predictive Analytics in the cloud study. In addition to the position paper there is now a quick introductory webinar. Covering similar information to the position paper with some great case studies, this webinar lays out the key areas of potential for Predictive Analytics in the Cloud solutions. [...]

Just a quick note to update you on the Predictive Analytics in the Cloud research we are conducting. We have about 100 survey results already and some interesting trends are developing in the results. Don’t forget, if you took the survey, that the results are anonymous and you need to register at smartdatacollective.com/predictive-analytics-cloud to get [...]

The Predictive Analytics in the Cloud research we are conducting is moving on. The survey is open for you to give us your opinion and the position paper is now available. The position paper discusses the value propositions for 5 ways to use predictive analytics in the cloud: Pre-packaged Cloud Based Solutions Predictive Analytics for [...]

Decision Management Solutions, the company of which I am CEO, is running a study on Predictive Analytics in the Cloud. Both Predictive Analytics and Cloud are hot topics and the intersection has tremendous potential. Whether it is using cloud-based decision management systems powered by predictive analytics, using the cloud to deliver predictive analytics to SaaS [...]

I am a faculty member for the International Institute for Analytics and we are launching a new research effort – the IT Analytics Research Council. Here’s what the official promotional text says: The International Institute for Analytics (IIA) uses an experience-based research approach to uncover “what’s working” and more importantly “what’s next” in the area [...]

We announced are newest research today – Predictive Analytics in the Cloud. This is a multi-stage, multi-client project that will run over the next few months. We’ve had strong interest and have a great set of sponsors that should be familiar to readers from our First Looks – Clario Analytics, FICO, Opera Solutions, Predixion Software, [...]

John Rymer and Mike Gualtieri of Forrester have published two interesting new reports on business rules – The Future Of Business Rules Platforms and Market Overview: Business Rules Platforms 2011. The first of these is a short piece emphasizing the growing role of business rules management systems in event processing and in Decision Management. The [...]

Deepak Advani kicked off day 2. SPSS was acquired by IBM in 2009 and, like all acquisitions, has to report on how well it has met the expectations set at acquisition time. SPSS has beaten every target set for it at acquisition and reviews have apparently been a “bit of a love fest”. SPSS has [...]

IBM clearly realizes that people, process and technology all must go together to deliver value. This means that clients need both software and services and was the subject of this next session. Business Analytics and Optimization is a segment that crosses hardware, software and services at IBM. IBM is committed to growing this business from [...]

The new Rexer Analytics data miner survey is out. I recently blogged about the results of the last one and it is definitely worth participating as the survey is a great source of information about the data mining and predictive analytics industry. And don’t forget to tell your friends about it too – send them [...]

Paul Nunes of Accenture presented some of his work at the Accenture Institute for High Performance. He began with a story – Zenith. Zenith did well in radios, got into television and rode that curve and as competition grew more intense they got into PCs and computers. But they sold off the computer business rather [...]

Insurers face new and growing challenges as the market moves into recovery in 2011: more delivery channels, demographic shifts, a changing competitive landscape and a rapidly evolving regulatory and compliance environment. Many insurers are faced with meeting this challenges hampered by inflexible legacy applications, underutilized data from internal systems and external sources, and manual spreadsheets [...]

Syndicated from International Institute for Analytics Tom Davenport pointed me to an interesting article recently – Judgment Call or Automated Decision—Or Both? – by Jan Abrams. It’s an interesting article and I go back and forth as I read it in terms of agreeing or disagreeing with Jan. First, let me say that the use [...]

The folks at VideoLectures.NET (http://videolectures.net/) wrote to me looking for blog contributors (http://blog.videolectures.net/) especially in the field of Data Mining or related disciplines within Computer Science. They are looking for video enthusiasts, students or researchers who will contribute creative reviews on different talks on the 12,000 videos on the portal – including a few hundred [...]

I was recently sent a copy of a Gleanster report. Gleanster for those who have not heard of it is a new company (founded by an old colleague of mine, Jeff Zabin, and others) that delivers free research. It is not clear what its business model, exactly, but for readers of the blog it represents [...]

I am a faculty member of the International Institute for Analytics and participated in the recent call to discuss some of our predictions for 2011. Quite a few of the faculty were on the call – Tom Davenport, John Elder, Bill Franks, Jeanne Harris, Anne Milley, Niel Nickolaisen, Jeremy Shapiro and me. If you haven’t [...]