Analytics: New Frontiers for Analytics
The “New Frontiers” panel at the SDForum Conference on Analytics on 4/9/2010 was moderated by Brett Sheppard (BigDataNews.com). The panelists included Jie Cheng (Acxiom), Vispi Daver (Sierra...
View ArticleAnalytics: Leading the Analytics Revolution
Sanjay Poonen gave a presentation on how SAP is “Leading the Analytics Revolution” at the first SDForum conference on analytics: “The Analytics Revolution” on 4/9/2010. Sanjay claimed that although...
View ArticleAnalytics: An Applied Researcher’s Perspective
Jeffrey Kreulen emphasized the question “What is the business problem that you have to solve?” and noted that IBM likes to hire “T-shaped people,” with breadth and depth and also with experience in...
View ArticleAnalytics: Research in Analytics for Operational Impact at HP
Jaap Suermondt (HP Labs) talked about how his lab uses analytics to support operations at HP. Jaap started with an example of procurement of disk drives. HP ships two PCs per second and buys more disk...
View ArticleAnalytics: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data
Peter Norvig focused on a major lesson learned at Google and elsewhere in recent years and gave a fascinating keynote presentation on “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data” at the SDForum conference...
View ArticleAnalytics: Online Controlled Experiments – Listening to the Customers, Not to...
Ronny Kohavi (Microsoft) started out by telling a famous true story about Greg Linden’s experience moving a recommender to the shopping cart at Amazon. A Senior VP of Marketing vetoed Greg’s proposal...
View ArticleAnalytics: Analyzing “Big Data”
The panel on “Analyzing Big Data” at the SDForum Analytics Conference on “The Analytics Revolution” included representatives of two companies that analyze data on a petabyte scale (Joydeep Sen Sarma,...
View ArticleCombining Performance and Decision Management
James Taylor, CEO of Decision Management Solutions, gave a talk on “Performance Management and Agility” at the monthly meeting of the SDForum BI SIG on Tuesday, April 20th. He argued that traditional...
View ArticleSalesforce’s Realtime Analytics
Salesforce’s CRM analytics architect, Donovan Schneider, presented an overview at the SDForum BI SIG meeting on May 18th, 2010. Salesforce’s view of analytics is that it should deliver insight that is...
View ArticleFlurry’s Mobile App Analytics
Peter Farago and Sean Byrnes gave a juicy and surprising presentation about Flurry‘s mobile app analytics at the SDForum Business Intelligence Special Interest Group meeting on 10/19/2010 in Palo Alto....
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