BI innovation
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Several weeks ago, Hurwitz & Associates deployed a short survey entitled, “Four questions about innovations in analysis”. Well, the results and they are quite interesting! THE SURVEY First, a few words about the survey itself and who responded to the survey. We wanted to make the survey short and sweet. We were
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Several months ago, I wrote a piece about Voice of the Customer (VoC) and how text analytics companies are getting good traction from this application. I recently got an update from Sid Banerjee, CEO of Clarabridge that further supports this observation. Clarabridge, an independent text analytics vendor is garnering much success with what it is
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Monday, SAS announced that it had purchased Teragram, a privately held natural language processing (NLP) company, for an undisclosed sum. Teragram is now a SAS company meaning that the Teragram brand will be maintained. Its solutions and OEM business will be retained. A good move for SAS This acquisition is a good move for SAS
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I’ve been writing a lot about text analytics because I think it is a critical technology for deriving insight from unstructured data. Late last summer, Hurwitz & Associates published a report on Text Analytics. As part of our research, we surveyed companies that had deployed this technology, were planning to deploy the technology, or had
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Late last summer, Hurwitz & Associates published a report on Text Analytics. As part of the report we surveyed companies that had deployed the technology, were planning to deploy the technology, or had no plans to deploy text analytics. We asked companies planning to deploy text analytics solutions whether they planned to integrate it with
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I was talking to an old friend the other day who is involved in using the results of research to help grow a business. He told me some interesting stories that made me revisit some basic tenets of good analysis. Yes, you may think that some of these are obvious, but they still bear repeating.
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Robin Bloor and I were briefed by SAS about some of its visualization technologies last week as part of the research we’re undertaking in innovations in BI. SAS has thought a lot about visualization. In fact, the company has an interesting user centric UI model that actually looks at classes of users across various visualization
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I’ve never been a fan of the data cube. In fact, I’ve always disliked it because it seems so constraining. I don’t want to be chained to a certain thought process when I’m analyzing data. Maybe that’s because I try to use a variety of analytical approaches when gaining insight from data. Recently, Robin Bloor
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A wise man once told me, “Look at the data. What are the data telling you?” That was my dissertation advisor, some twenty years ago, before the term data visualization was even coined. And that’s the sensible advice I’ve followed throughout my career when analyzing all different kinds of data. Data visualization in the form
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