Blogs tagged curt monash

As I argued in a long article last December, Oracle is focused on helping computers do their jobs better, while SAP is focused on helping people do their jobs better. Much the same could be said of IBM. And SAP’s keen focus on process goes far... Read More »

In my inaugural You can’t analyze data you don’t have here, I argued in favor of capturing analytic data in general, and text data in particular.  Mining transactional data is already good, but mining or otherwise exploiting... Read More »

Fair Isaac Corporation is promoting a methodology called “Decision Yield” for measuring analytic success, specifically in-line (aka operational) analytics.  There doesn’t seem to be a lot of meat there (the Harvard Business... Read More »

Text mining is perhaps a $100 million industry (maybe a little less only counting software license fees, but certainly a bunch more if one counts more liberally).  A large fraction of that business, and of its applications, can be grouped under... Read More »

James Taylor of Fair Isaac is something of a business rules extremist (in the inference engine sense of “business rules”), but his views are interesting even so.  Here are some of his thoughts about building analytic business... Read More »

Analytic business processes — or the areas of overlap between analytics and business process — are poorly understood.  Business Activity Monitoring and Operational BI?  Great buzzwords, but there’s way too little thought... Read More »