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SAS and the Business Analytics Innovation Centre
Last Friday, SAS announced that it was partnering with Teradata and Elder Research Inc. (a data mining consultancy) to open a Business Analytics Innovation Centre. According to the press release,
“ Recognising the growing need and challenges businesses face driving operational analytics across enterprises, SAS and Teradata are planning to establish a centralised “think tank” where [...]
Is it Possible to Make Predictive Analytics Pervasive?
I just got back from the IBM Information on Demand (IOD) conference in Las Vegas. A key message was that the future is in analytics and predictive analytics at that. IBM has already invested $12B ($8B acquisitions, $4B organic growth) in analytics since 2005. Its recent purchase of SPSS has enabled the company to put [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Four reasons why the time is right for IBM to tackle Advanced Analytics
IBM has dominated a good deal of the news in the business analytics world, recently. On Friday, it completed the purchase of SPSS and solidified its position in predictive analytics. This is certainly the biggest leg of a recent three-prong attack on the analytics market that also includes:
Purchasing Red Pill. Red Pill is a privately-held [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )2009 Text Analytics Survey
Several weeks ago, in preparation for the Text Analytics Summit, I deployed a short survey about the state of text analytics. I supplemented the end-user survey with vendor interviews. Here are some of the end-user findings.
First, a few words about the survey itself and who responded to the survey.
I wanted to make the survey short [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )The Three C’s – conceptual search, clustering, and categorization
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Richard Turner, VP of Marketing, at Content Analyst. Content Analyst was originally part of SAIC and spun out about 5 years ago. The company provides content management, eDiscovery, and content workflow solutions to its clients – primarily as an OEM solutions.
The tool set is called CAAT (Content [...]
The Brave New World of Text Analytics Applications
Attensity Corporation announced today that it is joining forces with two other text analytics/information management companies, Living e and Empolis, to form a new company called Attensity Group focused on creating business user applications on top of sophisticated data and semantic analytics technology. According to Michelle de Haaff, CMO, the new combined company has software [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )IBM Business Analytics and Optimization – The Dawn of New Era
I attended the IBM Business Analytics and Optimization (BAO) briefing yesterday at the IBM Research facility in Hawthorne, NY. At the meeting, IBM executives from Software, Global Business Services, and Research (yes, Research) announced its new consulting organization, which will be led by Fred Balboni. The initiative includes 4000 GBS consultants working together with the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Real Time Text Analytics
I’ve recently noticed a small buzz building about the notion of “real time” text analytics. In fact, I’ve come across several vendors talking about it in relation to customer experience and financial trading. The idea is that these companies analyze a lot of unstructured data quickly and provide real time information to the people who [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Data visualization and the dynamic dashboard
I’m a big fan of data visualization because it really helps people understand information. You can certainly derive a lot of insight from a report, but sometimes it helps to look at data in a different way. Dashboards are one way to get information to people in an easily digestible format. However, in order for [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Practical Operational BI
I recently had an interesting conversation about business intelligence and operational BI with Steve Mauss, President and COO of Knowledge Relay. Knowledge Relay was founded in 1984 and has its roots in project management software for the aerospace/defense and government verticals. Over the years, it has expanded its reach to support other industries such as [...]
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