Premier Sponsors

Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of strategy and technology consulting for nearly a century. Today, the firm provides professional services primarily to the US government in defense, intelligence, and civil markets, and to major corporations, institutions, and not-for-profit organizations. Booz Allen offers clients deep functional knowledge spanning strategy and organization, engineering and operations, technology, and analytics—which it combines with specialized expertise in clients’ mission and domain areas to help solve their toughest problems.

Booz Allen is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, employs more than 25,000 people, and has annual revenues of had revenue of $5.59 billion for the 12 months ended March 31, 2011. To learn more, visit www.boozallen.com. (NYSE: BAH)

Deloitte Federal Analytics
Federal agencies turn to Deloitte for our industry experience and advanced analytics capabilities. We look at organizations from the inside out to help translate data into meaningful information. By using tools that link data to the most mission-critical goals and by leveraging a variety of solutions across Deloitte’s technology, strategy and operations, human capital, financial advisory, and risk practices, we help agencies cultivate the ability to be proactive — even predictive. From headquarters to the back office to the front line, we work side by side with clients to design and implement their most strategic, complex initiatives to achieve higher levels of performance and service -- while managing risk and getting more value from compliance requirements. For years, we have helped our Federal clients achieve breakthroughs in performance, transparency, and accountability. Your mission is our only agenda. Learn more at www.deloitte.com/us/pawdc.

Elder Research Inc. (ERI) is the US's leading consulting company in data mining, predictive analytics, and text mining. Founded in 1995, ERI has helped government agencies and Fortune Global 500® companies solve real-world problems by amplifying the productivity of their analysts. Drawing from experience in multiple industries, ERI brings cutting-edge technology into front-line practice to achieve high return on investment. Headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia, ERI has a growing office in Washington, DC, and is pleased to have organized the conference program for Predictive Analytics World for Government.

Markets are changing, and the complexity and volume of data is growing exponentially faster. More transparent decisions, timelier actions, better resource utilization and continuous learning are vital to value creation. When faced with the need to do more with less, how do you effectively derive insights from the deluge of big data?

The leader in business analytics software and services, SAS empowers organizations to make better decisions with the data they already have. SAS helps you focus on what matters now and what will happen in the future so that you can deploy results where and when they're needed. SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW®.

With SAS® Analytics software you can:

• Interactively visualize, explore and communicate data discoveries.
• Transform structured and unstructured data into fact-based insights for better decisions.
• Share and deploy compelling insights to take timely actions.
• Monitor results and facilitate continuous refinement of your analytic models.

StatSoft, Inc., founded in 1984, is one of the largest producers of enterprise and desktop software for Data Analysis, Data Mining, Quality Improvement, and Web-enabled Analytics. Its products are used worldwide at most major corporations, universities, and government agencies and are supported with training and consulting services by 29 offices on all continents. STATISTICA Enterprise is a highly scalable, web-enabled platform, used by a variety of industries in mission-critical applications wherever predictive modeling helps increase productivity and profitability. The StatSoft platform has enjoyed unprecedented record of recognition from end-users (also, winning all major independent surveys of users) and reviewers for more than two decades. These independent ratings show that while easier to use and more cost-effective than its competitors, the StatSoft analytics platform offers unmatched performance, scalability, uncompromising attention to detail and overall quality, which ensures success for its users.

Table Top Sponsors

Acxiom is a recognized leader in marketing services and technology that enable marketers to successfully manage audiences, personalize consumer experiences and create profitable customer relationships. Our superior industry-focused, consultative approach combines consumer data and analytics, databases, data integration and consulting solutions for personalized multichannel marketing strategies. Acxiom leverages over 40 years of experience in data management to deliver high performance, highly secure, reliable information management services. The skills and dedication of our employees transformed Acxiom from a small data processing company into a market leader. Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, and serves clients around the world from locations in the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and South America. For more information about Acxiom, visit www.acxiom.com.

Detica NetReveal® is a leading provider of enterprise risk, fraud and compliance solutions to the global financial services industry. Its unprecedented, market-leading solutions provide a holistic ‘single customer view’ and then combines entity and social network analytics with deep domain expertise. This approach provides an end-to-end enterprise perspective of financial crime and risk for the detection, prevention and monitoring of risk, fraud and non-compliance in real-time and batch. By knowing your customer, what kind of business they transact and who they know, Detica NetReveal® can identify unusual and suspicious behaviours faster and earlier than any other current approaches.

With over 100 clients across four continents, including six of the world’s current top 10 financial institutions, Detica NetReveal® has established a proven track record of reducing financial losses, protecting users’ reputations and improving operational efficiencies. Detica NetReveal® is a business division of BAE Systems Detica. In 2011, BAE Systems acquired Norkom Technologies and merged it with Detica NetReveal®.

About Detica NetReveal® www.deticanetreveal.com

Salford Systems is an award-winning analytics software development and consulting company with a proven record of technical and practical excellence. We offer a highly accurate, ultra-fast predictive analytics and data mining platform for developing models from databases of any size, complexity, or organization. Our technologies span classification, regression, missing value analysis, and clustering/segmentation. Core components of our Salford Predictive Modeler™ (SPM) platform include CART(r), MARS(r), TreeNet(r) and RandomForests(r). Our automation accelerates the process of model building by conducting substantial portions of the model exploration and refinement process for the analyst. While the analyst is always in full control, we optionally anticipate the analyst's next best steps and package a complete set of results from alternative modeling strategies for easy review. Applications span fraud detection, credit scoring, market research segmentation, direct marketing, drug discovery and risk management. Industries using Salford Systems products and services include banking, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications, transportation, manufacturing, and education.

Association Partners

The International Institute for Analytics (IIA) is dedicated to the advancement of analytics in everyday business practices. Under the direction of Tom Davenport, IIA brings together the world's leading analytics practitioners and researchers to provide unique insights to both business and IT leaders on the most current research findings and industry best practices

For more information visit: http://iianalytics.com/

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is the largest professional society in the world for professionals in the field of operations research (O.R.), management science, and business analytics. INFORMS serves the scientific and professional needs of Operations Researchers and those in Management Sciences and Analytics including educators, scientists, students, managers, and consultants. The Institute serves as a focal point for analytics professionals, permitting them to communicate with each other and reach out to other professional societies, as well as the varied clientèle of the profession's research and practice. Plan to attend INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research, April 15-17, 2012, Huntington Beach, California.