Text Analytics WIIFM (What’s in it for Me?)
Every day or so, someone asks me what’s hot in analytics now. My answer is simple – text. Text analytics,…
Data Management: Reaching Into the Cloud
In a form of “shadow IT”, Line-of-Business groups have been turning to cloud-based services to quickly set up technology solutions…
Open Government Dead – Pass the Beer Nuts…
Editor’s Note: The piece below is reprinted with permission. It was written by the highly regarded observer of federal technology…
BI Vendors Use Communities to Serve Customers
BI vendors tend to primarily follow a software production business model and shy away from too much services. One reason…
Are New SEC Rules Enough to Prevent Another Flash Crash?
At 2:42PM on March 10 2010, without warning, the Dow Jones Industrial Index plunged more than 1000 points in just…
Why Strategy Needs to Be Specific…
Today’s Dilbert strip hit on a couple of key thoughts, albeit in traditional Dilbert fashion… This is a pretty simplistic,…
Data to the People!
Government debt and spending have recently sparked exceptionally intense and controversial debates in the US, the UK and the Eurozone.…
Data Science in the Mainstream
As the Strata Conference continues this week in New York, I've been following some of the early presentations via the live…
Take the Predictive Analytics in the Cloud survey
Decision Management Solutions, the company of which I am CEO, is running a study on Predictive Analytics in the Cloud…
Predictive Analytics in Healthcare
I am attending the Computerworld Business Intelligence and Analytics Perspective conference and just gave the opening keynote “From Business Intelligence…
