Analytics and the art of selling 23 Nov 2010 at 8:37am Cross-posted from JTonEDMI saw this interesting McKinsey piece recently - Rediscovering
the art of selling - McKinsey Quarterly - Retail & Consumer Goods -
Strategy & Analysis - and I was struck ...
A really fresh look at business analytics 7 Oct 2010 at 9:48am A friend sent me a link to a webinar on "The End of BI as We Know It" that promised "A fresh look at what business analytics means". It wasn't clear who was speaking or what company was sponsoring ...
Why thinking about decisions should be a BI best practice 9 Sep 2010 at 6:30pm I was struck today by a short but effective Information Builders
PowerPoint - Four
Worst and Four Best Practices in Business Intelligence. I really
liked the worst practices - especially the o...
Fall webinar series 30 Aug 2010 at 11:59am I just scheduled and announced four new webinars for this fall:
Simplifying over-complex processes
Delivering customer centricity across multiple channels, multiple platforms
Implementing anal...
Gathering BI/DW requirements 24 Aug 2010 at 9:46am There was a great article this week over on the Requirements Network - Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Requirements
Elicitation. Where do You Begin? I really liked the fact that early in th...
More on decisions and decision management 28 Jul 2010 at 4:30pm I recently wrote an article for the IIA on decisions, decision management and analytics. This was prompted by Tom Davenport's recent interview on the Sloan Business Review on Reengineering your dec...
Data integration and keeping the decision in mind 28 Jul 2010 at 12:55pm Some time ago I was at a warranty conference and there was an interesting discussion about registration cards. You know, those postcard sized mailers you are asked to return to register your produc...
New data mining competition 6 Jul 2010 at 7:46am 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 diff...
Operational Analytics resarch available 6 May 2010 at 4:52pm I have been working on some research with the BeyeNETWORK and we are pleased to announce the release of "Operational
Analytics: Putting Analytics to Work in Operational Systems". The basic premise...
It is Rexer Analytics survey time 26 Apr 2010 at 12:52pm 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...
Now that's cute - data mining on an iPad 19 Apr 2010 at 6:44pm Karl Rexer just sent me this link - Oracle Data Mining on iPad - and I have to say it is pretty cute. I recently got a demo of the new Oracle Data Mining capabilities and will post a quick summary ...
Telemetry means little without analytics 5 Apr 2010 at 7:10pm CNet had a nice story about UPS that caught my eye - UPS turns data analysis into big savings. What was interesting about this to me was not just the use of telemetry (which is interesting enough),...
An Overview of Data Mining Techniques 31 Mar 2010 at 6:38pm I was doing some research the other day and found (re-found really) Kurt Thearling's page of Data Mining Techniques. I had forgotten how useful this was and thought I should re-post it for those of...
New Rexer Analytics Survey 26 Mar 2010 at 2:03pm I recently got the survey results from the annual data mining survey that Karl Rexer of Rexer Analytics runs. You can get the summary here or the full results from Karl but here are my thoughts:
Da...
Stephen Few on the problem with BI 19 Mar 2010 at 2:37pm In a recent post, Big BI is Stuck: Illustrated by SAP
BusinessObjects Explorer, Stephen Few took issue with the claims of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. I have not spent any time with the product s...
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