by Meri Gruber | Mar 4, 2013 | Big Data, Decision Management, Predictive Analytics
James gave a presentation a while back on Business Friendly Data Mining with Decision Management. James writes in “Dealing with the age old barrier to analytics – business understanding:” Patrick over at Figurs sent out a newsletter that highlighted an...
by James Taylor | Mar 4, 2013 | Decision Management, Predictive Analytics, Product News
Paul Kent, VP of Big Data, came up next and gave a white board talk with no slides. His initial focus was on parallel processing for analytics, something that SAS has been working on for a while and that is key to their HPA and Big Data approaches. He points out that...
by James Taylor | Feb 27, 2013 | Big Data, Business Re-Design, Business Rules, Decision Management, Predictive Analytics
The purpose of business analysis is to accurately describe the requirements for an information system (more or less). Business Analysts use a variety of techniques to do this. They use techniques designed to help them find out what is required, to elicit the...
by Meri Gruber | Feb 22, 2013 | Business Rules, Decision Management, Platform Technologies Report, Predictive Analytics
Here is an excerpt from our Decision Management Systems Platform Technologies Report on Collections: Collections, chasing down those who owe money to the organization and collecting it, is a complex problem. Traditionally handled with large teams of people...
by James Taylor | Feb 19, 2013 | Big Data, Decision Management, Predictive Analytics
I saw this list of Top 10 CIO Business and Technology Priorities in 2013 from Gartner the other day and it caught my eye. In particular I was struck by the potential for Decision Management to impact both business and technology priorities on this list. Obviously one...
by Meri Gruber | Feb 13, 2013 | Business Rules, Decision Management, Platform Technologies Report, Predictive Analytics
Healthcare is an industry increasingly rich in data. Yet simply applying analytics, doing simply what the data tells you, is not really practical in an industry where peer review, published best practices and government regulation abound. Decision Management Systems,...
