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Comment on Five Predictions for Advanced Analytics in 2010 by James Taylor

James Taylor — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:59:50 +0000

Fern
great list – the only thing I would add is that I think there will be an increasing move to making tools for building advanced analytic models more accessible to non-quants
JT

Comment on Five Predictions for Advanced Analytics in 2010 by fbhalper

fbhalper — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:07:04 +0000

That’s a good big question with no short answer.

- IBM recently published an interesting study (Voice of the CIO) that included about 160 mid market companies and their priorities for BI that is worth looking at.
- There are numerous on-premises solutions for various aspects of BI that mid market companies are making use of.
- BIaaS vendors are popping out of the woodwork and obviously one play is with the mid market firms.
- It is possible that mid market firms will want more specific rather than generic BI tools – like sales planning, spend analysis, but it will be important for these to work together in a cloud environment.

Contact me directly if you need more information.

Comment on Five Predictions for Advanced Analytics in 2010 by Dan Gordon

Dan Gordon — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:41:18 +0000

How are mid-market companies using analytics today, and how will the greater availability of cloud-based BIaaS plays (so to speak) change their usage?

Comment on Top of Mind – Data in the Cloud by Dan Gordon

Dan Gordon — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:56:55 +0000

For the customers of our cloud storage company Nirvanix, common use cases are: remote archive, long-term near-line storage (think media assets for mastering), “third copy”.

Comment on Premise vs. Premises in the Cloud by Susan L

Susan L — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:06:07 +0000

According to all the good dictionaries I’ve come across, premise and premises are totally two different words and are not at all related to each other. Undoubtedly, many English users have mistaken that premise is the singular form. However, I can assure all English users that premises is a plural noun and stays plural all the time. It has NO singular form.

Comment on Is it Possible to Make Predictive Analytics Pervasive? by Ted Morris

Ted Morris — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:48:19 +0000

Fern,

Nice post. Informative as usual.

The Internet in particular is a vast repository – like a big bowl of spagetti -that can be set up like a data warehouse. I recently met up with some investors who are excited about using predictive analytics and text mining in the consumer goods space to model buying behaviour. I expect IBM will continue investing…

Cheers,
Ted.

Comment on A different spin on analyzing content – Infosphere Content Assessment by Ted Morris

Ted Morris — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:21:33 +0000

Hi Fern,

Thanks so much & apologies for lag in follow up.

I had once been approached to consider partnering with the Webfountain folks out of IBM (Somers, NY) hence my interest in Webfountain’s evolution. In fact, a former colleague of mine from IBM had been working to bring Webfountain to market back in 2003/04. Subsequently ran up against Webfountain in a couple of competitive bid situations, then Webfountain went radio silent. It was also quite a coincidence a bit later on (but no surprise) that IBM acquired Cognos, one of my former clients from my days as a CRM/BI process consultant with IBM Global Services. It was clear to me that IBM was going to invest very seriously in the BI space beyond the enterprise environment and out into the Internet domain. Webfountain has always been of interest since I first read about web analytics and text mining out of IBM’s KM network. The industry is still early stage and there is so much room for improved capabilities. I trust IBM to get this one right.

Again, thanks so much for the update.

Cheers,
Ted Morris.

Comment on Top of Mind – Data in the Cloud by Supply Chain Data and the Cloud « Supply Chain & Technology

Supply Chain Data and the Cloud « Supply Chain & Technology — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:43:27 +0000

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Comment on Top of Mind – Data in the Cloud by Brett

Brett — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:02:56 +0000

Being a geogeek, OSM is not cloud data at this time. CloudMade is, but that is a derived view rather than OSM itself. Same with the NSF requirement, public, but not necessarily cloud.

Comment on Top of Mind – Data in the Cloud by Jim Catalano

Jim Catalano — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:07:05 +0000

Here’s a newsflash for everyone. OMB is now requiring all federal agencies to use the cloud or justify why not. I believe this is all a part of the administrations Open Government initiative. See the link below for more information

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=35&sid=1836091