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First Look: FICO Decision Optimizer
Decision Optimizer is one of FICO’s Decision Management Tools and is designed to address some specific challenges in customer decisioning, particularly that there are often competing objectives and very large numbers of customers (and thus customer...
Mobile and Decision Management [VIDEO]
While at IBM IMPACT this year I was interviewed about Decision Management, Mobile and more. Check out the video below:If you want to access the white papers I mention you can find them on decisionmanagementsolutions.com/white-papers.Copyright...
Decision Management and In-Memory Technology
In-memory databases and in-memory analytics are interesting technologies when it comes to Decision Management Systems. Memory is thousands of times faster than disk and the amount of memory on a node is increasing rapidly. Putting data in...
First Look: Decisions
I caught up with the wonderfully named Decisions recently. Back in the 90s the founders started OOP.com to separate what programmers did (build new components) from business users (who assembled and managed components) in complex decisions. This was...
Democratizing Data with Decision Management
I have been following the Data 2.0 Summit folks recently – the Third Annual Data 2.0 Summit 2013 in San Francisco is a one-day conference and speakers include Anthony Goldbloom, CEO of Kaggle, who is always worth listening...
Time to Take the Rexer Analytics Data Miner Survey!
It’s that time again – time to take the Rexer Analytics survey so we can see what’s happened in the world of data miners over the last year. You can take the survey here: www.RexerAnalytics.com/Data-Miner-Survey-2013-Intro.html and use...
Decision Management and the Idiocy of “Video Bills”
Listening to Marketplace yesterday I heard a piece on AT&T’s new “video bills.” Now I am sure this sounds cute to the folks in the AT&T marketing department and you can just hear the conversation can’t you? Someone points out that...
Why Enterprise Architects Want Decision Management
Enterprise Architects partner with the business to help them take full advantage of the technologies that their organizations are using, or should be using. They map technologies to the business requirements, ensure that technologies are applied...
Analytics and Ending the Tyranny of the Anecdotal
I was chatting with our VP of business development today and she shared a great phrase that she had heard recently – “the tyranny of the anecdotal.” This refers, of course, to the terrible tendency of people to use anecdotes and stories to make...
From Decision Support Systems to Decision Management Systems
I am often asked about the difference between decision support systems and decision management systems. This is an interesting topic and one that is central to the value proposition of decision management systems so I thought I would revisit it.All...
Decision Management Summit – Decision-Centric Business Design
Copyright © 2012 http://jtonedm.com James TaylorFollowing up on my series of posts about the great speakers we have coming up at Decision Management Summit I want to share one of the sessions I am personally most excited about -...
How a Decision Management System Would Make It Easier to Watch the Olympics!
On the occasion of the Olympic Games opening ceremony I thought I would share one of my pet peeves about this and other sporting events – I can’t watch them. Now this is not because they are too commercial or because the human interest...
