business analytics
Using SAS Analytics, a University of Central Florida (UCF) research team won the fifth annual Data Mining Shootout by showing that winter storms had the greatest impact on infectious diseases, surpassing the effect of floods, thunderstorms and windstorms.
With the explosion of social media, Singapore organizations are hard-pressed at making sense of all the unstructured data coming in from various channels to aid them in making business decisions. With this explosion of social data, we expect strong growth in social media analytics.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has deployed SAS data warehousing and business analytics technology to speed up investigation of suspicious transactions.
IBM has introduced new analytics software in the US that would help cities predict the result of policies up to a quarter century in the future.
SAS recently unveiled a cross-disciplinary Center for Health Analytics and Insights that is expected to drive innovation and collaboration among organizations to develop deeper insights into medical care.
The Yale School of Management Center for Customer Insights and IBM have partnered on an academic initiative that will provide analytics and training resources to MBA students to help them develop skills needed by future business leaders.
EMC Corp. recently announced three new additions to its EMC Greenplum Data Computing Appliance (DCA) line of products – the High Capacity DCA, the High Performance DCA and the Data Integration Accelerator – and version 4.1 of Greenplum Database.
SAS and GE Healthcare have entered into a joint development and marketing agreement to help hospitals address preventable adverse medical events by analyzing and delivering detailed patient safety information.
IBM and Nuance Communications recently announced a research agreement to explore, develop and commercialize the Watson computing system's advanced analytics capabilities in the healthcare industry.
With the rising complexity of global business, gut decisions and hunches no longer suffice. Successful responses to threats and opportunities now depend on rapid and smart execution. Business analytics is the key to achieving these challenging objectives. Our world generated more data in 2009 than in the previous recorded history of mankind. A good deal of this data can be converted into useful information and competitive advantage – by applying the right analytics.
