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Data Mining / Analytic News Briefs, Apr 2010 |
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- Attensity buys Biz360 social media monitoring company - Apr 30, 2010.
Attensity hopes this move will give it an edge in the social CRM (consumer relationship management) and analytics game.
- Jerome Friedman elected to US National Academy of Sciences - Apr 30, 2010.
Prof. Jerome Friedman is a leading researcher in statistics and data mining
- One Billion Euros to Unleash the Power of Information - Apr 30, 2010.
The project aims to assemble expertise across the whole spectrum of science -- from physics, computer science, environmental science and economics through psychology, ecology and sociology -- to develop supercomputing facilities and large-scale laboratories for a new kind of data-rich social science on which intelligent future policies can be based
- Gartner report: BI Grows Despite Economic Woes - Apr 29, 2010.
Business intelligence, analytics and performance management prove less cyclical than other software areas, recording healthy growth in 2009
- Boeing gives $1.25 million to launch new tech institute - Apr 27, 2010.
Vancouver Institute for Visual Analytics brings together industry, SFU, UBC
- Sentiment360: Groundbreaking New Social Media Company - Apr 27, 2010.
Sentiment360 combines the latest new media search technologies with teams of highly qualified research analysts to provide both a wide reach of quantitative knowledge along with deep qualitative insights for optimum results.
- System And Method For Supply Chain Data Mining And Analysis - Apr 27, 2010.
The method then detects a root cause for the detected combination of factors; performs correlation analysis between the selected factors; and performs trend analysis on the selected factors.
- Clarabridge Announces Enterprise 4.1 Including Innovations in Sentiment Analysis - Apr 26, 2010.
New version enhances understanding of the voice of the customer with more robust data visualization, new wizards for rapid project setup and new sentiment intensity capabilities
- Pervasive Software Quarterly Results - Apr 22, 2010.
Company Reports 37th Consecutive Profitable Quarter, Record Level of Deferred Revenue
- Networked Insights Gets $5 Million for Social Media Analytics - Apr 22, 2010.
Networked Insights, a provider of social media analytics, announced that it has raised $5 million in its first round of funding
- Washington fraud-busters turn to social analytics - Apr 22, 2010.
fraud detection agents from Washington's Department of Labor and Industries revealed how social networking business analytics is curbing the rise of compensation cheats
- SAS, JMP mix simulation and analytics to foster innovation - Apr 22, 2010.
Satisfy time and budget constraints using discrete event simulation, design of experiments, visualization
- Linguamatics Outperforms Target Of 50% Growth Year-On-Year - Apr 22, 2010.
Linguamatics, a leader in enterprise text mining, announced that sales revenue in 2009 exceeded $5million, more than 50% higher than a year ago
- Oco Launches New Cost Analytics SaaS BI Solutions - Apr 19, 2010.
On-demand solutions highlight cost reduction opportunities for enterprise customers
- Andreessen-founded Ning cuts staff, free service - Apr 19, 2010.
Ning us cutting 40 percent of its staff and axing its free, ad-supported service to focus on business-oriented premium networks
- University of Ottawa and IBM Create New Analytics Research Center - Apr 19, 2010.
Research and curriculum to prepare students with 'in-demand' skills to support 21st Century jobs
- Software That Predicts If You Will Do Crime & Time - Apr 18, 2010.
The Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice says it will use predictive analytics software from IBM to foretell which of its juvenile offenders are likely to return to crime.
- Analytic.ly Provides Real-Time and Historical Twitter Analysis - Apr 17, 2010.
helps people and companies visualize, study and measure Twitter conversations happening all over the web through general and custom reports and graphs.
- Datameer Launches Data Analytics Solution for Big Data - Apr 17, 2010.
Technology combines Hadoop with a spreadsheet interface, allowing any business user to run analytics against very large data sets
- Openwave Launches Analytics Express - Apr 16, 2010.
New Solution Enables Operators to Rapidly Deploy Analytics to Effectively Monitor, Manage and Monetize Mobile Data Traffic
- TechTarget Acquires BeyeNETWORK, Global Network of Business Intelligence Experts - Apr 16, 2010.
Combines to Form the Largest Business Intelligence Technology Network of Executives and Information Technology Professionals
- You've got to touch this! Oracle Data Mining on an iPad - Apr 16, 2010.
The ODM iPad experience is implemented using remote desktop on the iPad and an 11gR2 database (with the ODM option) running on the Amazon cloud.
- ANGOSS Quarterly Results - Apr 16, 2010.
Mutual fund and retail banking client expansion drive 21% Q1 growth in billed revenue, with 48% growth in on-demand solutions revenue
- Is Apple Banning iPhone App Analytics? - Apr 15, 2010.
Developers are coming to terms with another change in the license agreement for iPhone OS 4 that will ban third-party analytics apps from tracking and reporting tracking how users interact with applications on their Apple device.
- Aster Data Analytics Center, www.MapReduce.org - Apr 15, 2010.
All-Star Team of Analytics Experts and MapReduce.org to Help Companies Build Next Generation Analytic Applications Using SQL-MapReduce and MapReduce Breakthroughs
- IBM unveils Tax Collections Optimizer as analytics meets taxman - Apr 15, 2010.
The software uses analytics and models collection action plans for each individual case, weighing parameters like case load, personnel available and the likely effectiveness of the collection effort.
- SAS technologies available to education in hosted environment - Apr 13, 2010.
K-12 and higher education can more easily and affordably employ SAS financial, strategy and human capital management software
- Is Kontagent the Google Analytics of the Social Web? - Apr 13, 2010.
Kontagent, an analytics platform for Facebook-based social applications that describes itself as "Google Analytics for the social web," announced new features and an enhanced dashboard for Facebook marketers
- Kickfire's Cheap Data Mining - Apr 10, 2010.
Kickfire promises to turn pain into profit by analyzing the billions of clicks barreling through every connected company.
- Turiya Media: Data Mining Social Games To Find The Most Valuable Players - Apr 9, 2010.
As more free-to-play games become the norm and selling virtual goods becomes the way to make money, game companies are relying more and more on a small fraction of players paying to level up or for that shiny new virtual sword.
- Oracle Data Mining helps win America's Cup - Apr 9, 2010.
BMW Oracle Racing's victory in the 33rd America's Cup yacht race in February showcased not only the crew's extraordinary sailing expertise, but also great technology,
- LookSmart Appoints Vincent Granville as Chief Scientist - Apr 6, 2010.
LookSmart, an online search advertising solutions company, announced the appointment of Vincent Granville as Chief Scientist.
- Prescription Data-Mining Case Goes to the First Circuit - Apr 6, 2010.
drug marketers are successful at influencing physicians' prescribing habits, such as using prescriptions for expensive brand-name drugs instead of generics. Some states are trying to curb this, including limiting access to physician prescribing history.
- Need a Cab? New Analysis Shows Where to Find One - Apr 6, 2010.
The most popular corners to catch a yellow cab in Manhattan can now be pinpointed, at any hour of any day of the week, thanks to a record of 90 million actual taxi trips that have been silently tracked by the city.
- IDC: a Third of US Organizations Unsure How to Measure Analytics Benefits - Apr 3, 2010.
Spending intentions for 2010 investments in business analytics solutions are highest in the life sciences and securities and investment industries.
- Jingwei International Reports 2009 Year End Results - Apr 2, 2010.
a leading provider of data mining and interactive marketing services in China, reported financial results for 2009.
- Insurers Are Missing The Data-Mining Boat, Deloitte Says - Apr 1, 2010.
Insurers have a wealth of customer information they could employ for product marketing, but lacking data-mining strategies, according to a study from Deloitte
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