Category Archives: Business Analytics

No solutions for a simple predictive analytics challenge?

Surprisingly we haven’t yet received a single solution for the April-May 2015 Challenge. Nowadays there are so many papers and posts about predictive analytics and… no solutions for a relatively simple problem? If not vendors then consultants could at least use some … Continue reading

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Advanced Analytics and Optimization at INFORMS – April 12-14

The 2015 INFORMS Analytics Conference will be held in Huntington Beach, CA on April 12-14. Besides the “latest and greatest” on Analytics and Big Data, it will revolve around real-life implementations of game-changing technologies and capabilities that are transforming how businesses … Continue reading

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Challenge April-2015: Patient Diagnosis Decision

We’ve just published a new challenge problem for April 2015. This problem belongs to a highly popular predictive analytics domain and deals with a patient diagnosis decision. Looking forward to various solutions using modern decision management systems.

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Christmas Challenge from FICO

FICO, one of the major commercial DM vendors, runs predictive modeling competitions and even offers rewards to the winners. For the upcoming holidays FICO offered a challenge called “Jingle bells, Santa tells…”.  

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IBM paper “Patterns for Combining Analytics with Operational Decision management in Smarter Processes”

IBM published the article “Patterns for Combining Analytics with Operational Decision management in Smarter Processes” that looks at patterns that allow business insights and situational awareness provided by big data and analytics to be combined with Operational Decision Management to produce actionable responses … Continue reading

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Welcome to the Decision Management Community

For practitioners by practitioners! Decision Management (DM) quickly becomes the critical methodological and technological approach to support decision making processes in different industries. Today thousands of business analysts and developers, technology vendors and consultants, decision makers at all enterprise levels become DM practitioners … Continue reading

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