Do the BI vendors’ claims really stack up? “A little prediction goes a long way” wrote Eric Siegel in his popular Predictive Analytics book. True, predictive analytics is now part and parcel of most Business Intelligence (BI), analytics and Big Data platforms and applications. Forrester Research anecdotal evidence finds that open source R is
Version 4.2 of the Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML), which aims to make it easier to develop predictive analytics apps, is now available. The Data Mining Group, a vendor-led consortium of companies and organizations developing standards for...
Many organizations attempt to achieve “data nirvana” by having 100% complete information for any given business decision. In the customer analytics space, this is sometimes referred to as a “360 degree view of the customer.” However, we...
Companies that want to effectively manage their supply chain must invest in business intelligence (BI) software, according to a recent Aberdeen Group survey of supply chain professionals. Survey respondents reported the main issues that drive BI initiatives...
Experts believe our collection of Big Data will double every two years until 2020. Much of those digital artifacts come from people like you and me as we “Like” things on Facebook, buy books over the web, post...
Predictive Analytics Is Red Hot Why? What organization couldn’t benefit from making better decisions? Just ask the Obama campaign, which used sophisticated uplift modeling to target and influence swing voters. Or telecom firms that use predictive analytics...
The rising prevalence and increasingly varied applications of business intelligence software and analytics solutions continue to be a hot topic in the business world. Companies in a wide variety of sectors are approaching these tools and finding different...
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