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When it is KXEN!

By: David Norris , Bloor Research, Nov 28, 2006

At the recent KXEN User Conferences in Europe and the US, KXEN announced the methodology they are proposing to support the use of their tool on project work. This is a highly significant move, because one of the things that holds back the adoption and use of data mining is the inadequate methodological support and the philosophical underpinning that is provided. As a consequence of this, analytics is typically a low productivity, hand crafting, cottage industry that is inadequate to meets the demands of the modern economy.

KXEN is a tool that I have the greatest of respect for; it is capable of meaningful and precise analysis and prediction with a productivity which in my experience is unmatched by any of its competitors. I have long thought that the adoption of KXEN is actually far more than just taking on a new data mining tool; it is actually an instrument for fundamental business change, because it can enable management to work with facts so much more productively, it exposes the standard �guess and go� approaches to management as woeful and inadequate.

it will become increasingly untenable to view your role as being one of crafting a model in the existing low productivity environment and then handing over responsibility to others to use the model to enact improvement.

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