This year I would like to do something different and address trends in the business analytics industry that, in my opinion, will affect all industries in the…

Alberto’s Business Analytics Predictions for 2012 2011 was a great year for business analytics across all industries. As business analytics projects proved their measurable value within companies,…

Most of the electric utilities companies are investing in deploying smart meters to replace their aging infrastructure. Recently, I finished a smart grid analytics project with one…

Lately I have faced an interesting issue with large companies seeking business analytics assistance: how to provide operational predictive analytics to companies that need results in no…

If you are in Facebook you have seen a large number of friends take quizzes, surveys, and play games. What the implications of the use of these…

This technique developed at Stanford University is going to revolutionized text searching. The 'proximity-searching machine-learning" technique have potential applications in CRM databases for financial services, retail, and…

As a result of the recent Bernard Madoff fraud scheme, pension funds and corporate finance managers have been put on the defensive, wondering how to detect this…

As more companies increase the size of their databases search engine optimization (SEO) techniques can be adapted to data mining of commercial databases. In SEO link analysis…

I have written many times in the last 12 months about this issue in the Business Analytics website at http://atomai.blogspot.com/. This interview from Paul Krugman in Newsweek…

  Most BI projects fail because the leadership for those projects is wrong.  An article on how Some Brains Wire for Change[i] helps explain the physiological reasons…