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Using Analytics to Achieve High Performance – Harvard Business Review

Posted by analytics on August 4, 2010  |   No Comments »

Earlier this summer our partner Accenture had an article in the The Harvard Business Review about the importance of Analytics for businesses that want to have a competitive advantage. This article, in conjunction with Tom Davenport’s new book Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results which is referenced in the article, is showing the growing interest and popularity of analytics in the workplace. The Davenport book is a must read for any business executive in today’s world. If not, your competition will, and have the ability to make precise and razor sharp decisions to compete .

How business analytics help drive competitive advantage

Originally published in The Harvard Business Review, June 2010

Download the full article: Using Analytics to Achieve High Performance [PDF, 664KB]

Companies are operating in a sea of their own data. Many are just treading water, but some companies are swimming toward new forms of competitive advantage by using business analytics. Click to read entire article.

ADAPA Predictive Analytics Scoring Engine

Posted by analytics on July 8, 2010  |   No Comments »

Zementis’ ADAPA Scoring Engine is one of the best examples that demonstrates the power and revolutionary nature of cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS). The ADAPA Scoring Engine allows us to compute massive amounts of data like never before. What once took days now takes minutes.

From the youtube video – ADAPA® enables you to succeed with Predictive Analytics. It is a stand alone scoring engine that reads PMML descriptions of models and scores huge streams of data. ADAPA® is the first standards-based real-time scoring engine for Predictive Analytics Models, and, its available, now, as a fully hosted Software-as-a Service (SaaS) solution on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. For more information, visit us at www.zementis.com.

Analytical Data Prep 101

Posted by analytics on June 18, 2010  |   No Comments »

Ergenomics partner SAS has a wealth of educational information on their website about the methodology and practice of collecting and analyzing data. In this webinar:

  • Philip Russom, Senior Manager of TDWI Research, The Data Warehousing Institute
  • Scott Chastain, Americas Technology Practice, SAS
  • Anne H. Milley, Senior Director, Technology Product Marketing, SAS

discuss the beginning processes of setting up an environment to conduct predictive analytics. Beyond the distinction of a data warehouse, a data mart querying items in the data warehouse, and an analytic database being able to assist in creating predictive analytics from these sources, this webinar is a must view for managers and buyers beginning on the journey of predictive analytics.

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