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Oracle BIWA Summit January in Redwood Shores
I am giving the opening keynote for the BIWA Summit 2014 January 14-16, 2014 at the Oracle HQ Conference Center in Redwood Shores, CA. It’s an Oracle-focused event, obviously, with some novel and interesting use cases of Oracle Big Data, Exadata, Advanced Analytics/Data Mining, OBIEE, Spatial, Endeca and more. There are opportunities to get hands-on experience with products in the Hands-on Labs, great customer case studies and talks by Oracle Technical Professionals and Partners. You can even schedule 1:1 time with me and other technical experts. some interesting conference talks (besides mind) include:
- Hands-on Lab: Learn to use Oracle R Enterprise —
White Paper of the Week: Next Generation Claims Systems with Decision Management
I have been thinking about insurance claims processing a lot recently and working with a client to apply decision modeling to focus predictive analytics effectively in the claims process so this week’s white paper is Next Generation Claims Systems with Decision Management
Decision Management delivers next generation claims systems that act immediately, increase agility, consistency and accuracy, improve customer satisfaction, speed response and reduce costs. Insurers can achieve significant speed-to-market gains, reduce fraud and create innovative new claims processes.
Learn how Decision Management takes insurers from tactical claims processing t
Webinar training: Business Rules Applied
I am one of the speakers for the Business Rules Applied webinar/training being run by NobleProg January 22-23, 2014. My session is on Decision Management and Business Rules: transparency and control for your business
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Using Decision Management to build more agile, analytic and adaptive businesses,
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The role of business rules in Decision Management,
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The three stages of Decision Discovery, Decision Services and Decision Analysis,
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Discovering and modeling decisions with the new Decision Model and Notation standard.
You can register for the webinar series <a href="http://be.nobleprog.co.uk/node/add/webinar-registration?edit[title]=Business%20Rules%20Applied&edit[field_first_delegate_price][und][0][value]=350&edit[field_additional_delegate_price][und][0][value]
Rexer Data Mining Survey 2013
Karl Rexer just published his summary of this year’s Rexer Data Mining survey. As always there’s lots of good information but here are my favorite takeaways:
- As in our own work on Predictive Analytics in the Cloud, the survey fond that a focus on customers and on customer experience/engagement was top of mind. CRM/Marketing is still the number one area in which data mining is applied.
- The survey has seen a steady increase in the use of text mining over recent years and the use of text mining in customer service saw big jumps this year. This too matches our experience when surveying about what data feeds predictive analytic models.
- Not a lot of use of Big Data with few data miners reporting a Big Data program and not much increase in dataset size. We did notice that experienced teams, those with positive results from predictive analyti
White Paper of the Week: Putting Predictive Analytics to Work 2014
This week’s white paper is Putting Predictive Analytics to Work
We have recently updated this white paper on using Decision Management to make your operational systems analytical and improve customer treatment.
Applying predictive analytics to operational decision making is the next wave of business innovation. Operational decisions drive interactions and determine the actions taken by an organization. Operational decisions are critical to how an organization treats, and is perceived by, its customers, its partners and its suppliers. Decision Management is the framework needed to fully exploit this opportunity.
You can get this white paper, and others, on our white paper download page. If you need some help getting started with Predictive Analytics or Decision Man
Oracle BIWA Summit: Big Data, Little Decisions: Using Decision Management to improve operations
I am giving the opening keynote at the Oracle BIWA Summit 2014 in Redwood Shores, California. I will be speaking on “Big Data, Little Decisions: Using Decision Management Systems to improve day to day operations” at 8:45am on January 14.
As companies invest in Big Data infrastructure they are looking for ways to show a return on that data. Using business analytics to put this data to work improving decision-making is central to success. But which decisions should be the focus and how will you show improvement? In this session, I will discuss the importance of day-to-day operational decisions, show how these are critical to business success and show how to use Decision Management Systems and big data-powered business analytics to improve them.
You can get more inform
UCI Extension Defining Business Goals for Predictive Analytics – Winter 2014 enrollment open
I have been giving a class on Defining Business Goals for Predictive Analytics as part of the University of California Irvine Extension’s Predictive Analytics Certificate program. Predictive analytics can be used to seek out increasingly small margins and understand a company’s customers, products, channels, partners, and more. However, predictive analytics is only part of the […]
Predictive Analytics World 2014: Predictive Analytics in the Cloud: Use Cases and Trends
I am speaking on Predictive Analytics in the Cloud: Use Cases and Trends at Predictive Analytics World San Francisco 2014. Predictive analytics are the most effective way to put Big Data to work. Cloud technologies both deliver new data sources and provide a scalable, pervasive platform for analytics. The intersection is creating new opportunities for value […]
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