Predictive analytics helps firms to get "about three per cent better at guessing" what a consumer would like to buy, according to the founder and chief of Applied Predictive Technologies (APT), Jim Manzi. "Realistically, what predictive ...
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COLUMBUS, OH, December 18, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Big data may not be a term often discussed outside the CIO's office today, but according to experts at ICC, a leader in business technology services with a focus on big data and ...
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Gaining a better understanding of customers is the main motivation for big data programmes. This is one finding from a SearchDataManagementUK survey of 184 UK and continental European IT and business professionals who are primarily ...
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Record group EMI is honing its marketing efforts by joining its data sources through Microsoft SQL Server 2012. It has reportedly gained insights into how individual artists’ albums, tracks, ringtones and merchandise sell in different ...
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Five years after German retail giant Otto provided investment capital for a start-up analytics software supplier, it achieved a 40% improvement in demand forecasting from the resulting technology. Otto derives revenue of €11.6bn ...
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Alexander Zeier, co-designer of SAP's HANA appliance, speaks to Computer Weekly about the evolution of in-memory analytics. Zeier joined Accenture eight weeks ago, having spent the last few years at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of ...
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Ventana Research has announced that the firm will share key findings from its yet to be published Business Technology Innovation Benchmark Research, as well as present facts from other new and recently released research on big data, cloud ...
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In a Q&A with press at the RSA European conference today,RSA executive chairman Art Coviello revealed how criminals and nation states are working together to launch cyber attacks. Further reading RSA:No successful attacks on customers ...
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Agencyport Software has introduced AgencyPortal 4.5, a new version of AgencyPortal platform to provide self-service portals to insurance companies' retail agents, brokers, MGAs and policyholders. The AgencyPortal is being used by over ...
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Donegal Insurance Group has selected Valen Technologies' InsureRight product as a predictive analytics solutions for workers' compensation insurers. Valen CEO Dax Craig said: "InsureRight will help Donegal's underwriters make more ...
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The Ohio based underwriter Buckeye Insurance has added EagleEye solution to help insurer increase competitiveness in the auto insurance market. The solution provider EagleEye Analytics said that the offering will enable the firm to ...
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Delphi Technology has introduced an advanced version of its OASIS Workers’ Compensation technology, designed to provide ability to manage the entire claims lifecycle, from intake to settlement/resolution. The fully-integrated ...
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Indian drug maker Piramal Healthcare has decided to acquire US-based healthcare data provider, Decision Resources Group (DRG), for a consideration of around $635m. Following the acquisition of DRG, Piramal will operate DRG as a ...
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Big data a catalyst for change Corporate IT, BI and enterprise search Finding the gems Social, collaborative common to BI and search Business intelligence (BI) and enterprise search have been converging slowly in corporate IT ...
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SAP has developed an update for its HANA in-memory database that will enable it to"power mission-critical transactional and analytical applications in one platform,"the vendor announced Wednesday during the Tech Ed and Sapphire conferences ...
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