The future and trends of Text Analytics
I recently attended a GATE seminar on the University of Sheffield. Having used GATE for quite some time now, i…
Flexible yet permanent – the power of business rules
Sapphire, SAP’s big show, is on this week and I have been following the twitter stream (I was invited but…
How to Improve Predictive Accuracy? (Part 1)
“Prediction is difficult, especially about the future.” - Yogi Berra (a baseball catcher) One model or multiple models? Several articles…
A Poorly Managed Company’s Tour Guide: Performance Mangement and the ‘Mesdup’ Corporation
Publicly traded companies issue annual reports that increasingly look like magazines. Almost all organizations publish a brochure with glossy…
Miles Davis’ Music Lesson for Performance Management
Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington were jazz greats. And then came MilesDavis. What can we learn from the…
Design Patterns
In building trading systems, one notices patterns in how they are designing things. After you've built a couple, you start…
Winning the first game in a baseball series: a harbinger, or not?
For those not familiar with the major-league baseball in the US (and despite living here for more than 10 years,…
The Big Bad Boucher Bill, and Its Possible Exceptions
A discussion draft of a controversial bill to regulate behavioral targeting has been released by US Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA).…
SAS and Socialytics
SAS, a leader in business analytics, recently launched a new offering targeted around gaining business insight into the social web.…
5 Lessons Social CRM can Learn from CRM
I have been implementing CRM Solutions for a decade, having successfully managed many large CRM projects for Fortune 500 companies in the…
