Text Analytics Meets Publishing
I’ve been writing about text analytics for a number of years, now. Many of my blogs have included survey findings and vendor offerings in the space. I’ve also provided a number of use cases for…
A different spin on analyzing content – Infosphere Content Assessment
IBM made a number of announcements last week at IOD regarding new products/offerings to help companies analyze content. One was Cognos Content Analytics, which enables organizations to analyze unstructured data alongside structured data. It also…
SAS and the Business Analytics Innovation Centre
Last Friday, SAS announced that it was partnering with Teradata and Elder Research Inc. (a data mining consultancy) to open a Business Analytics Innovation Centre. According to the press release, “ Recognising the growing need…
Is it Possible to Make Predictive Analytics Pervasive?
I just got back from the IBM Information on Demand (IOD) conference in Las Vegas. A key message was that the future is in analytics and predictive analytics at that. IBM has already invested $12B…
Four reasons why the time is right for IBM to tackle Advanced Analytics
IBM has dominated a good deal of the news in the business analytics world, recently. On Friday, it completed the purchase of SPSS and solidified its position in predictive analytics. This is certainly the biggest…
Analyzing Data in the Cloud
I had an interesting chat with Roman Stanek, CEO of Good Data last week about the debate over data security and reliability in the cloud. For those of you who are not familiar with Good…
What is location intelligence and why is it important?
Visualization can change the way that we look at data and information. If that data contains a geographic/geospatial component then utilizing location information can help provide a new layer of insight for certain kinds of…
Security and Reliability of Data in the Cloud
Over the past few days, I got a chance to speak to two different companies in the business analytics space about data in the cloud. One was a SaaS provider, the other an enterprise software…
Five Key Areas For Managing the Cloud
It’s been a while since I’ve written a blog because I’ve spent most of the summer working on our Cloud Computing for Dummies Book along with Judith Hurwitz, Robin Bloor and Marcia Kaufman. I did,…
Premise vs. Premises in the Cloud
With all of the research I’ve been doing for our latest book: Cloud Computing for Dummies, I’ve noticed something very disturbing. Maybe it’s because I come from a telecommunications background, that this bothers me so…