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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 text analytics; many of which have revolved around voice of the customer, market intelligence, e-discovery, and fraud. While these are…
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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 looks like IBM may be releasing a “voice of the customer” type service to help companies understand what is being…
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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 and challenges businesses face driving operational analytics across enterprises, SAS and Teradata are planning to establish a centralised “think tank”…
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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 ($8B acquisitions, $4B organic growth) in analytics since 2005. Its recent purchase of SPSS has enabled the company to put…
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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 leg of a recent three-prong attack on the analytics market that also includes: Purchasing Red Pill. Red Pill is a…
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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 Data, it provides a collaborative business analytics platform as a SaaS offering. The upshot of the discussion was something like…
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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 analysis. Location intelligence is the integration and analysis of visual geographic/geospatial information as part of the decision making process. A…
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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 vendor. Two vendors, two different stories that illustrate the jury is still very much out regarding how end users feel…
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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, however, post a short blog about premise vs. premises, which I urge anyone involved in Cloud Computing to read. In…
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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 much – but has anyone else noticed that people are misusing the word premise when describing aspects of the cloud? …
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