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Open Standards and Cloud Computing KDD-2009 Panel Report

A panel on open standards and cloud computing addressed emerging trends for data mining applications in science and industry. This paper summarizes the answers from a distinguished group of thought leaders representing key software vendors in the data mining industry. Supporting open standards and the Predictive Model Markup Language PMML...

Tags: Open Standard, Industry, Predictive Analytics, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Cloud Computing, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

White papers 2009-07-01

Applying Predictive Analytics to Physician Detailing

Producers of prescription drugs face high R&D, and sales and marketing costs. This three-page technical paper describes how predictive analytics can help them optimize their sales and marketing efforts to improve the return on their investment.

Tags: Physician, Predictive Analytics, SPSS Inc., Marketing Research, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Sales

White papers 2009-06-03

Increasing marketing campaign profitability with predictive analytics

Discover how predictive analytics can help your company move from large, unfocused marketing campaigns with low response rates to smaller, targeted campaigns that help you increase revenues and customer satisfaction. Download this executive report to find out how Predictive Marketing enables you to optimize your outbound marketing campaigns to decrease...

Tags: Predictive Analytics, SPSS Inc., Marketing Research, Marketing

White papers 2009-06-03

Making Critical Connections: Predictive Analytics in Government

Predictive analytics helps your agency make critical connections between information from multiple sources, and provides a foundation for strategic and tactical decision making.

Tags: Government, Predictive Analytics, SPSS Inc.

White papers 2009-06-03

Predictive Analytics for the Claim Handling Process

Predictive Analytics for the Claim Handling Process: Understanding the Analytics Behind Predictive Claims This 12-page technical brief serves as a guide for understanding how Predictive Claims' predictive modeling capabilities can help your company optimize the claim handling process and improve the detection of suspicious claims.

Tags: Predictive Analytics, SPSS Inc., Claim, Modeling, Research & Development, Business Operations

White papers 2009-06-03

Predictive Analytics for the Detection of Suspicious Claims

Predictive analytics helps streamline the process of identifying potentially fraudulent claims, increasing the efficiency of investigators while rewarding honest customers with faster claims payouts. To learn more, download this white paper.

Tags: Predictive Analytics, SPSS Inc.

White papers 2009-06-01

Predictive Analytics in Perilous Times

In the past year, housing markets have collapsed, credit markets have frozen, venerable Wall Street firms have evaporated, the nation's automakers have approached the brink of failure, GDP has contracted, and unemployment has doubled. Such grim news is made worse by the uncertainty about the strength and timing of economic...

Tags: Predictive Analytics, SAS Institute

White papers 2009-03-01

The Path to Profitable Analytics: Via Predictive Analytics to Marketing Automation

The SAS BI solutions enabled one to increase the number of direct marketing campaigns from 20 to 1000+ a year. Now with SAS Marketing Automation implemented one is able to further increase the number of campaigns while improving the quality of target list selections. The paper focuses on data handling...

Tags: Marketing, Analytics, Predictive Analytics, SAS Institute, Automation

White papers 2009-02-27

Predictive Analytics for the Eyes and Mind

Predictive analytics are most revealing when they allow one to see how all the variables that contribute either directly or indirectly to the outcomes that concern relate to those outcomes and to one another. To understand these relationships, one must see them; one must watch how changes in one variable...

Tags: Predictive Analytics, SAS Institute

White papers 2009-01-01

Democratizing Data Mining - A Radical Approach to Pervasive Predictive Analytics

The area of incorporating predictive analytics into operational processes has, for the most part, relied on "Industrial Strength" data mining and knowledge discovery products employed by expert analysts with deep backgrounds in statistics and probability. These analysts not only understand the approaches employed by the analysis tools, but are also...

Tags: Expert, Predictive Analytics, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

White papers 2008-12-12

Planning for a Healthier Future: How Analytics Can Help Overcome Challenges Facing the Canadian Healthcare System

The purpose of this paper is to describe the prevailing conditions facing today's healthcare administrators, examine current issues in strategic planning for large health agencies and propose an exemplary framework for migration to a predictive analytics capability. As managers' information needs became more sophisticated, some limitations of this early business...

Tags: Analytics, Predictive Analytics, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources

White papers 2008-11-01

Predictive Analytics for the Retail Industry

The Data Mining Add-Ins for Office 2007 can be used to solve multiple business problems. The examples used in this paper describe the retail environment, but these methods are not exclusive to retail organizations. Most industries can use the concepts described in this paper to better understand both their businesses...

Tags: Industry, Predictive Analytics, Logistics, Analysis, Supply Chain, Business Operations

White papers 2008-05-01

How SAS 9 Allows the Delivery of the Power of Predictive Analytics and Forecasting to the Masses

The SAS 9 architecture has made it easier than ever to share the true power of SAS software throughout an organization. Businesses can benefit greatly from using SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence as the perfect delivery mechanism for sharing predictive analytics from SAS Enterprise Miner and forecasting from SAS Forecast Server...

Tags: Predictive Analytics, SAS Institute, Forecasting, SAS 9 Architecture

White papers 2008-03-13

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

Predictive Analytics: Extending the Value of Your Data Warehousing Investment

This paper is designed for the business or technical manager who oversees a Business Intelligence environment and wishes to learn the best practices and pitfalls of implementing a predictive analytics capability. While it discusses some technical issues, it is designed to educate business managers about how to drive greater value...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Investment, Predictive Analytics

White papers 2007-01-02

Enhancing Business Intelligence With Forecasting: How to Produce High-Quality Forecasts, Ensure Better Decisions and Plan More Accurately

Business Intelligence BI technology has been around for more than a decade. While the term BI became synonymous with historical query and reporting tools for many years, the definition of BI has evolved to include technology that addresses data integration, predictive analytics and information deployment. Predictive analytics often help companies...

Tags: Predictive Analytics, SAS Institute, Forecasting, Business Intelligence Technology, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management

White papers 2006-10-01

Foresight Desktop 1.7 (Windows)

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: Predictive Analytics, Equbits, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

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

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,...

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Blog posts 2005-02-25