Corporate culture key to success with analytics
New research by MIT Sloan Management Review and the IBM Institute for Business Value reports that organizational challenges, more so than technology hurdles, are holding companies back from fully integrating analytics across their enterprises. Read more
Predictive policing aims to stop crime before it happens
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is using predictive analytics to analyze data such as the times and locations of past crimes to forecast where and when certain crimes are likely to happen in the future so police can stop them before they occur. Read more
2012 Innovation in Analytics Award
The Analytics Section of INFORMS is seeking nominations for its newly created “Innovation in Analytics Award” to be presented at the 2012 INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics & Operations Research in Huntington Beach, Calif., April 15-17, 2012. Read more
Accel Partners launches $100 million ‘Big Data Fund’
Accel Partners, a global venture capital firm, recently launched its Big Data Fund, a new $100 million investment initiative created to identify innovative entrepreneurs seeking to build category-defining companies at every layer of the Big Data stack. Read more
Gartner’s top-10 strategic technologies for 2012
Gartner, Inc. recently highlighted the top-10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2012. Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment or the risk of being late to adopt. Read more
IBM’s Watson-like technology helps improve patient care, reduce costs
IBM recently introduced new software for the healthcare industry to help healthcare providers and payers improve patient care and reduce costs. The new software offering uses content analytics similar to what is found in IBM's Watson technology. Read more
University of Missouri receives grant to develop statistical models...
The U.S. Census Bureau is in transition. The constitutionally mandated 10-year count (decennial census) remains, but an annual, on-going survey called The American Community Survey (ACS) has been established. Read more
The value of business analytics
The intersection of statistically based insight and the realization that information can be an asset has had and will continue to have serious reverberations in the business world. Being smarter has always meant being successful; as far back as the 19th century, analytics was already generating competitive advantage. Read more
Strategic data management yields competitive advantage
A new survey has found that organizations with formal data management strategies derive more value from data assets and outperform competitors. The survey, “Big Data: Harnessing a game-changing asset,” was conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and sponsored by SAS.Read more
Corporate Mobile Software-as-a-Service Forecast
According to the latest Strategy Analytics Wireless Enterprise Strategies forecast, “Corporate Mobile SaaS Forecast, 2010-2016,” the Global Corporate Mobile SaaS Market will reach $1.2 billion in 2011 and grow to $3.7 billion by 2016, with a five-year compound growth rate (CAGR) of 25.8 percent. The ability to integrate powerful business applications on smartphones, tablets and other wireless devices will facilitate and accelerate SaaS adoption in the corporate business environment. Read more
Predictive analytics project delivers millions of course records fo...
WCET, the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies, has announced the successful federation of datasets from the six institutions participating in the PAR (Predictive Analytics Reporting) Framework proof of concept project. The goal of the PAR Framework is to identify variables that influence student retention and progression and to determine the impact of various demographic data on factors influencing loss and momentum. Read more
CoreLogic, FICO to develop new credit risk scoring solutions
CoreLogic, a leading provider of information, analytics and business services, and FICO will develop new credit risk scoring solutions for the U.S. mortgage industry. Read more
You need to be a member of AnalyticBridge to add comments!
Join AnalyticBridge