Forrester Wave report urges SAP, IBM and eight other vendors to come up with advanced analytics software that’s less daunting to business users. There were few surprises in the rankings in a “Forrester Wave: Big Data Predictive Analytics” report released on Monday, but the analyst firm had urgent advice for SAS, IBM and eight other
$50 billion. That’s about how much marketers are spending on Big Data and advanced analytics (according to a BMO Capital Markets report) in the hopes of improving marketing’s impact on the business. This commitment reflects a...
The potential of “big data” has been receiving tremendous attention lately, and not just on HBR’s site. With interest in the topic growing exponentially, it has been the focus of countless articles and perhaps too many meetings...
Anne Robinson is the Director of Supply Chain Strategy and Analytics for Verizon Wireless and the President-Elect of INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Before joining Verizon, she worked for Cisco, most recently...
Operations research is a very analytics-intensive profession. Has that always been known in the industry? Not really. People looking for analytics resources don’t necessarily associate that with operations research. We, the society, decided to take a more...
This is a brief, 7 minute clip of Porter’s session – to attend a complete, revealing session, attend PAW San Francisco(March 2014), PAW Toronto (May 2014), or PAW Chicago (June 2014). Pinpointing the Persuadables: Convincing the Right...
Scroll down for the video: Presentation at Predictive Analytics World by Andrew Pole, Senior Manager, Target – October 2010. Target Corp. is the fifth-largest retailer in America, providing a convenient one-stop shopping destination for guests seeking food,...