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Transform Customer Data Into Profit: Discover New Sources of Value Through Analytic Insight Across Your Marketing, Sales and Service Organizations: Marketing groups were first to embrace predictive analytics, for cross-selling, campaign management, interaction management, customer acquisition and customer loyalty programs. Other functional groups are gradually discovering the value of predictive analytics for identifying unexpected opportunities and anticipating problems. They know that if they don't, they leave money on the table....; Tags: Marketing, Predictive Analytics, SAS Institute, Sales; White papers 2007-04-01
Foresight Desktop (zip): Predictive analytics software with support vector machines. Make accurate predictions on challenging dataset. Discover key indicators, hidden trends, and behaviors. Easy to use and automated model tuning. Export models into other applications.; Tags: Desktop, Predictive Analytics; Software downloads 2006-05-02
ETPL - Extract, Transform, Predict and Load: Implementing an "Extract, Transform, Predict and Load" process can generate a huge variety of new opportunities. Since predictive analytics automates the process of finding new values or associations within in a large database there is no need to perform the traditional types of manual analysis. This new model is set...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Predictive Analytics, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2006-03-01
Using predictive analytics Within Warehouse Builder: Data mining can uncover useful information buried in vast amounts of data. However, it is often the case that many users that could benefit from these results do not have any data mining expertise. To date, most predictive analytic operations require the extraction of data to a separate analytic server...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Predictive Analytics, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Databases, Marketing Research, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management; White papers 2006-03-01
Learn and Predict: Many data sets collected are not as easily analyzed, though. Large data sets such as those related to housing, education, security, taxation, sales, and even sports are too large to analyze by hand. Not all patterns are easily recognized; many contain seemingly unrelated data. What if it were possible to...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Predictive Analytics, Data Set; White papers 2006-03-01

Core and predictive analytics to grow 7.7% and 8% a year: According to IDC, core and predictive analytics will grow through 2008 with compound annual growth rates CAGRs of 7.7% and 8% respectively. As compared with total worldwide revenue from core and predictive analytics at $8 bln in 2003, IDC believes the total will reach more than $11 bln in 2008,...; Tags: predictive analytics; Blog posts 2005-02-25
Core and predictive analytics to grow 7.7% and 8% a year: According to IDC, core and predictive analytics will grow through 2008 with compound annual growth rates CAGRs of 7.7% and 8% respectively. As compared with total worldwide revenue from core and predictive analytics at $8 bln in 2003, IDC believes the total will reach more than $11 bln in 2008,...; Tags: predictive analytics; Blog posts 2005-02-25
Unified Corporate Performance Management & the Application of predictive analytics: Actionable information on every manager's desktop is an oft talked about - but rarely achieved - goal of most businesses and the software vendors that serve them. Numerous vendors have attempted to address this issue through a litany of solutions including "enterprise information systems EIS", "analytic applications", and "business intelligence"....; Tags: Predictive Analytics, OutlookSoft, Corporate Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management; White papers 2005-01-01
The Last Mile in CRM Analytics: Optimizing the Customer Experience in Real Time: While large organizations have invested millions in customer relationship management software and analytics, a tremendous gap still exists between companies' ability to listen to customer needs and their ability to respond appropriately at the moment of interaction. In this webcast, the viewer will learn how applying real-time predictive analytics to...; Tags: Predictive Analytics, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software; Webcasts
How to Revolutionize Your Customers' Experiences With Real-Time, predictive analytics: Poor customer experiences stifle growth and send customers to the competition. To deliver a superior customer experience, the organization must maximize revenues and customer loyalty - while keeping costs in check. Organizations must treat each customer differently based on their needs and their value. But what are the best practices...; Tags: Predictive Analytics, Customer Experience; Webcasts
predictive analytics: A Slam Dunk for Business: Trying to figure out how statistics and analytics can be put to practical use throughout the business? Join this webcast for real-world examples of predictive analytics in action. The presenter of this webcast will explain the basis of predictive analytics, and then discuss how the same techniques can be used...; Tags: Predictive Analytics, SAS Institute; Webcasts
MSDN Webcast: predictive analytics With Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Level 200): All businesses are concerned with the question, what next? Where will our customers, profits, and even problems come from? Predictive analytics helps to answer these questions. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining is a remarkably powerful platform for delivering predictive analytics for users needs. This session introduces the benefits of...; Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Microsoft SQL Server, Predictive Analytics, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining; Webcasts

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Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature: There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...; Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Profiler for VMware (exe): Profiler for VMware provides agentless, cross-domain visibility, management, and intelligence from applications through servers, network, and storage. Profiler enables users to visualize and manage both physical and virtual systems from a single console, with a unified view of the entire environment, to track and respond to utilization of physical resources...; Tags: VMware Inc., Tek-Tools Software, Profiler; Software downloads 2008-05-14
SOA Software acquires respository and governance vendor LogicLibrary: SOA Software, a provider of governance solutions for services-oriented architecture SOA, has acquired LogicLibrary, a leading SOA repository and governance vendor. The acquisition of the Pittsburgh, Pa.-based LogicLibrary by Los Angeles-based SOA Software creates a more comprehensive SOA governance and automation solution, said the companies. The goal...; Tags: Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-12
VCs put big sums into SaaS: Several SaaS vendors have announced some big funding rounds the past couple of weeks, which suggests that SaaS is still able to command strong VC support where vendors can show good traction for their offerings. The three rounds that caught my eye were: Rearden Commerce, $100 million....; Tags: Software-as-a-service, Rearden Commerce, Analytics, Sales Compensation, Intacct, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob Ashe: Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob AsheIBM is completely missing the SaaS BI trendI wasn't surprised by Rob's comment that "BI doesn’t lend itself to SaaS" (though I suspect that the folks from Cognos' Celequest acquisition were caught a bit off guard.) But, I strongly disagree. The notion that...; Tags: Sales strategy, Software as a Service (SaaS), Sales force management, Tools & Techniques, SaaS BI, sales, software-as-a-service, Cognos Inc., IBM Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-05-09
Google's open source problem is Affero: The best open source protection for "the cloud," as Gordon Haff notes today, is the Affero GPL license. (Picture from our Tech Republic's GeekEnd blog, written by Jay Garmon.) Affero closes the "ASP loophole" described by Fabrizio Capobianco here in March. It defines what SaaS delivers as...; Tags: Google Inc., ClipperZ, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-09
TomTom One 130S: The TomTom One 130 and TomTom One 130S mark a new beginning for the company's line of basic GPS. You still get TomTom's hallmark ease of use and community features, but the portable navigation systems now boast more compact designs as well as a new vehicle mount that can be...; Tags: GPS, Keyboards, TomTom; Product reviews 2008-05-08