Analytics Ascendant, Part 2: The Limits of Predictive Modeling
In my last post on predictive modeling (4 August 2009) I used the recent announcement that the Netflix Prize appears…
One word from the NYT: Statistics
The New York Times has an article today about the emergence of Statistics as a discipline at the forefront of…
Interview: Paul Barsch on a Zero Latency Future
Paul Barsch enjoys communicating—as a writer and speaker—so it wasn’t hard to get him to talk about his two posts,…
Is Information Alive?
It's a new week and I thought we'd start it with a discussion to get our brains working after the…
VectorWise
I was fortunate enough to speak with Marcin Zukowski earlier about VectorWise. If you missed it, VectorWise came out of…
IBM’s Secret Upside for SPSS Acquisition – Smart…
IBM’s Secret Upside for SPSS Acquisition – Smart Infrastructure | BNET Technology Blog My colleague Michael Hickins was right when…
Another Wave Of Vendor Consolidation?
We all woke up today to the news that IBM is to buy SPSS. IBM is acquiring analytics-software maker SPSS in…
Another BI Vendor Acquired
The big software vendors continue to consolidate the BI market.Today, IBM announced plans to acquire statistical analysis software vendor SPSS…
Africa’s Style of Performance Management
This week I am in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town, South Africa presenting seminars. The highlight for me was being…
Leveraging your Business Intelligence to Drive Revenues and Profits
Recently there have been a deluge of articles and speeches about how to leverage BI and your information assets to…
