by James Taylor | Jun 6, 2013 | Decision Management
A solution-focused session next with Marcus Hearne talking about analytic marketing solutions. Marketing remains focused on its traditional imperatives – how to focus on customers to maximize the value of each interaction, how to measure effectiveness, what...
by James Taylor | Jun 6, 2013 | Decision Management
Next up is a session on the new infrastructure and platforms for analytics. IBM’s view (and I would agree) is that use cases for analytics are evolving to increasingly combine traditional structured data and newer unstructured, more dynamic, “Big...
by James Taylor | Jun 6, 2013 | Decision Management
Mychelle Mollot kicked off day 2 of the Analyst Insights event discussing the analytic skills gap. Only 1 in 10 organizations, she says, feel they have the tech skills they need while 3 in 4 students feel they lack the skills they need. Meanwhile 72% of academic...
by James Taylor | Jun 5, 2013 | Decision Management, Strategy
Les Rechan and Niel Isford came up to wrap up the first day to talk about IBM’s focus on Client Experience. The products, as was noted earlier, are focusing on being Easy, Simple and Fast to make them easier to consume. From a licensing perspective IBM is...
by James Taylor | Jun 5, 2013 | Decision Management
After a couple of customer conversations Stephen Gold of IBM came back on time to discuss Watson. I have blogged about Watson a couple of times (including this one on what Watson means for decision management). Recently IBM has started working with clients around...
by James Taylor | Jun 5, 2013 | Decision Management
Another customer panel followed focused on big data and analytics use cases with a particular focus on streaming data, data in motion. Customers were University of Ontario Institute of Technology and Aginity. Dr Carolyn McGregor from UOIT is someone I have blogged...
