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I have not really introduced the International Institute for Analytics on the blog yet and, as I am a Faculty member, I thought I should rectify that. The International Institute for Analytics is dedicated to the advancement of analytics in everyday business practices and aims to bring together the world’s leading analytics practitioners and researchers [...]

I will be presenting a webinar with Deb Smallwood of Strategy Meets Action on The top 10 imperatives for insurers and the role of decision management in addressing them on November 10th, 2010 at 10am Pacific. As Insurers position for market recovery and deal with the forces reshaping the insurance business, SMA’s industry research has [...]

Rob Ashe and Fred Balboni kicked off the IBM Business Analytics Analyst Summit with a presentation on IBM’s overall strategy for analytics – product and consulting in an integrated view. Of course this is IBM so everything starts with Smarter Planet – and Smarter Planet begins with how to get insight to drive better performance, [...]

Syndicated from Smart Data Collective There’s a lot of talk about advanced analytics these days – the use of data mining and predictive analytics is growing rapidly so lots of articles, books (like Tom Davenport’s latest) and blog posts are being written. One of these was by Jeff Kelly over on TechTarget on Data analytics [...]

Syndicated from International Institute for Analytics Tom Davenport was interview recently by the Sloan Business Review on Reengineering your decision making processes about analytics and how companies make decisions. While the interview is mostly focused on manual decision making, many of the points are just as valid when you consider decision management and decisioning technology [...]

IEEE ICDM Contest: Road Traffic Prediction for Intelligent GPS Navigation Over the last century, the number of cars engaged in vehicular traffic in cities has increased rapidly, causing many difficulties for all citizens: traffic jams, large and unpredictable communication delays, pollution, etc. Excessive traffic became a civilization problem that affects everyone who lives in a [...]

The nice folks over at IDC let me take a look at IDC – Worldwide Application Development and Deployment: 2010 Predictions. I have a somewhat narrow focus (Decision Management) so only two are really in my zone. First, #10: 10. Decisioning Products Will Be Unified to Deliver a Decision Management Platform This is obviously right [...]

I got my first formal briefing from REvolution Computing recently. REvolution has been around for about 2 years. Originally they focused on bringing parallel computing power to R and providing some consulting around the language. They raised some new funding recently and now have a new management team, including CEO Norman Nie (co-founder of SPSS) [...]

Bill Franks was up next to talk about the joint SAS, Teradata, Elder Research Business Analytics Innovation Center. The purpose of this center is to help customers develop game changing analytic solutions not just adopt analytics. The center brings together best SAS and Teradata folks to help customers with analytics while also bringing third parties [...]

Syndicated from BeyeNetwork Rexer Analytics, a data mining consulting firm, is conducting their fourth annual survey of the analytic behaviors, views and preferences of data mining professionals. This is a really interesting survey (I blogged about the results of the previous one here) and I encourage you to participate. The survey Link is www.RexerAnalytics.com/Data-Miner-Survey-2010-Intro2.html (you [...]

I recently spoke to an interesting company getting serious about analytics and looking for some staff. Drop me a line james@decisionmanagementsolutions.com if you are interested and I will forward your resume along: Data Mining / Analytics Business Analyst Senior Business Analyst with data mining and predictive analytics experience to lead the establishment of a decision [...]

Three job openings today. Decision Management Solutions partner Technology Blue is looking for a couple of experienced Blaze Advisor resources for a project starting March 1: Senior Business Analyst: Full time resource with experience in business rule harvesting and analysis, process oriented, able to develop and implement processes, must be comfortable leading knowledge transfer and [...]

Syndicated from BeyeNetwork I am working with the folks at B-eye Network and sponsors Oracle, SAS, Aha!, Adaptive and Fuzzy Logix on some research – Business Analytics: Putting Analytics To Work.There is growing interest in the power of analytics, especially predictive analytics, to improve business operations. The use of data mining and analytic techniques in [...]

As part of some research on operational analytics I am doing for BeyeNetwork we have developed and posted a survey – please go to http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB22A3HRGXRBS and take it. It shouldn’t take you long and you can fill out a request to get the results.

Recording of the Breakaway Breakout session where Fred Balboni and I discuss the new IBM research on using analytics to breakaway from competitors. Watch live streaming video from newintelligence at livestream.com

The folks from SAS gave me a quick update the other day on SAS Enterprise Miner and SAS Model Manager, two of SAS’ data mining/predictive analytics products. I often blog about SAS, as you would expect, but I have not done any product posts. SAS’ Business Analytics Framework is focused on helping organizations find the [...]

Neil Raden and I helped write an article for Teradata Magazine – Prepare for impact – and you can find it online as part of Teradata Magazine Online. The article came out of some research on decisioning technology that Neil and I did together. You can download it from Teradata or from Decision Management Solutions.

Syndicated from BeyeNetwork I am spending some time with SAS this week and I was struck by a couple of announcements related to the ongoing SAS/Teradata partnership. First, the two companies have partnered with Elder Research to create a Business Analytics Innovation Center. This will both pilot new analytics (something at which John and his [...]

Syndicated from BeyeNetwork I was attending IBM’s launch of its analytic appliances when it announced its intent to acquire SPSS. I did not get a chance to write much more at the time but I did not want to let the opportunity pass completely.I think the announcement represents a sea change in the decision management [...]