2011: The Year of the Analytics Platform – Part I
When we kicked off Aster Data back in 2005, we envisioned building a product that would advance the state of…
First Look – FICO Model Builder 7.1
I got an update from the folks at FICO on the new release of Model Builder, their predictive analytics workbench.…
Future Trends in Business Rules (with a little help from my friends)
I was presenting this week to a company that asked what trends I saw in business rules. I had my…
A Text Analytics Commercial
Media Convergence is Finally Happening - DIY Advertising Several years ago social media, and perhaps more specifically new online…
IDC: Decision Management Market at $10B by 2014
The folks at IDC (Dan Vesset, Maureen Fleming, Steve Hendrick, Henry Morris and others) have just released Worldwide Decision Management…
Germany Threatens to Fine Companies That Use Google Analytics
Concluding that Google hasn't adequately complied with their demands, German data protection officials are warning that web companies in the…
Winners of Mozilla Open Data Competition announced
The winners of the Mozilla Open Data Visualization competition "How Do People Use Firefox" have been announced. The competition attracted…
Top Ten Predictions for 2011 from IDC
This post is built from our annual IDC group effort to lay out ten predictions. The actual document should be…