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Please check out the Text Analytics Summit, Boston, June 12-13

May 16, 2012 by Seth Grimes
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The Text Analytics Summit was the first business-focused conference dedicated to BI on text, to techniques that turn text into data in the service of diverse applications, and it remains the best. [read more]

TwitPolls: Some Relevance for Enterprise Technologists

May 15, 2012 by Bob Gourley
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Since TwitPolls has already proven its ability to deliver value and since it is backed by a cadre with proven past performance in building things that scale, it is going to become a part of the fabric of the Internet. [read more]

Outlier Detection in Two Review Articles (Part 1)

May 15, 2012 by Sandro Saitta
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The authors proposes three types of supervisions. In supervised outlier detection we make the assumption that labeled data are available. Semi-supervised outlier detection assumes that only one class of labeled data is available. Techniques which models normal instances as the only class are more popular (since normal instances are easier to obtain). The third approach, unsupervised outlier detection, is the most widely used one. [read more]

Big Data Will Make IT the New Intel Inside

May 15, 2012 by Gil Press
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It well may be that big data—the organizational skill of using data as the key driver of performance—will make the IT function the new Intel Inside, the most strategic component of any organization. [read more]

Analytics for Creating More Choices

May 15, 2012 by Gary Cokins
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Analytics’ goal should be to gain insights and solve problems, to make better and quicker decisions with more accurate and fact-based data, and to take actions. “Big data” with high performance computing is allowing organizations to deploy business analytics to have more choices and make better decisions. [read more]

Outsourcing, Off-shoring and Near-shoring – what works or doesn't for BI & DWH

May 14, 2012 by Shaughn Knight
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Well, the unique selling point of any outsourcing vendor is their customer testimony. The published customer testimonial will show you only an ideal picture of the vendor’s perfection and not the failed projects. Practically failed projects of a vendor are tough to be identified. [read more]

Business Rules, Decision Management and ASUG

May 14, 2012 by James Taylor
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I do a lot of work with companies and organizations adopting business rules and Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) such as BRFplus and NetWeaver BRM. I wanted to share two things (as I head off to Sapphire/ASUG). [read more]

Next Gen Research Ad Measurement

May 14, 2012 by Tom Anderson
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Many media sales today go beyond traditional TV ads and also frequently include a combination of various banner ads across online networks, social media engagement tactics, apps or games, custom client web portals to name just a few. Thus measuring the campaign efficacy is also becoming more complex. [read more]

How Business Analytics Can Lead to That ‘Aha’ Moment

May 14, 2012 by Brett Stupakevich
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Core insights take data and make forward looking predictions, like how customers will act in the future or where, when and how a market will shift. Gartner Inc. describes analytics as the “combustion engine of business” and notes that the companies that use predictive analytics to analyze voluminous structured and unstructured data will grow 20% more than their competitors. [read more]

Really Simple Surveys: Talk Doesn’t Cook Rice... #MRX

May 13, 2012 by Annie Pettit
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Welcome to Really Simple Surveys (RSS), the younger sibling of Really Simple Statistics. There are lots of places online where you can ponder over the minute details of complicated survey designs but very few places that make survey design quickly understandable to everyone. I won’t explain exceptions to the rule or special cases here.... [read more]

Kronos Supercharges Workforce Analytics with New Technology

May 12, 2012 by Mark Smith
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Maximizing cost-effectiveness and productivity is the goal of workforce analytics, and Kronos is focused on that. Kronos also provides workforce management applications, which I recently assessed. Now the company has released a new version of its workforce analytics software. In Kronos Workforce Analytics version 6.3 the technology is complete refreshed with the embedding of MicroStrategy, which is well-known for its robustness in business intelligence and analytics. [read more]

Sales Organizations Need a Swift Technology Kick

May 12, 2012 by Mark Smith
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Unfortunately, most sales applications are not ready for use on smartphones and tablets. Quick access to information from smartphones is essential, as sales teams are usually on the go. Our research found that 30 percent of sales organizations are planning to deploy tablets in 2012, and they plan to purchase both Apple and Android tablets; supporting them will require software vendors to build applications that can operate natively or within the Web browser on both platforms. [read more]

Mariano Rivera’s Baseball Prowess, Illustrated with R

May 11, 2012 by David Smith
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Kevin Quealy, graphics editor at the New York Times, has published another fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how the Times creates data visualizations for print and online. In his latest post, he looks at how a visualization of the Yankee's Mariano Rivera performance compared to other Major League Baseball pitchers was created. [read more]

Foursquare Delivers a Decisive Blow to Stalkers

May 11, 2012 by Maggie Fox
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This week foursquare announced API changes to eliminate privacy concerns and creepy stalker apps like Girls Around Me. So, what are they changing? Foursquare is removing the ability for users to see people (even those not on their friends list) who are checked in to a venue without being checked in to the same venue themselves. [read more]

Meet Your Company’s New Virtual Assistant – Big Data

May 11, 2012 by Brett Stupakevich
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AutoPilot is a sort of virtual assistant from Frankfurt-based IT automation and managed services company Arago. AutoPilot combines data and artificial intelligence to take over the most boring and repetitive tasks of managing a large IT infrastructure – effectively becoming a new “hire” on your sysadmin team. [read more]

Forrester’s Customer Experience Forum 2012

May 11, 2012 by Erin Polka
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This year, Forrester’s Customer Experience Forum will feature case studies, data, business models, and tools from its upcoming book, Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business. It will show you how leaders in industries like financial services, retail, media, and telecommunications take control of the factors that make or break customer experience at their organizations with tools including ecosystem maps and the six disciplines of customer experience. [read more]