At a recent business analytics event, Lennart Frantzell demonstrated how (at least at a practical level) there has been a shift in business computing from Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Business Analytics: Using a healthcare example, Lennart explained how…

Business analytics can play an increasingly important role in academia these days. Recently we heard about how business intelligence could be used to locate students in need of further assistance by mining data on lecture attendance and course performa…

Over on the IBM Software Blog, Cognos Product Marketing Manager Brendan Farnand explains just

Let’s start with the obvious: this is the opinion of one mere human. Someone who would fail miserably at the US quiz show Jeopardy: it’s that ‘start-with-the-answer’ approach that just screws me up every time. Not being a native of this soil, I claim it’s just…

There’s a growing battle in the location-based services business between Foursquare and Facebook. Foursquare, with its past emphasis on gaming and status building (who wants to be the mayor of the local laundromat?) is now focusing on a more functional aspect:…

In the current edition of Analytics, a cross-brand team from IBM (Irv Lustig, Brenda Dietrich, Christer Johnson and Christopher Dziekan) explain IBM’s view of the structured data…

Decision management expert and consultant James Taylor was ‘cornered’ recently at the IBM IOD conference and asked to explain the present and future of business analytics. An eloquent speaker and veteran in this field, James does a great job of highlighting…

A post by Timo Elliot over on the Forbes blogging community posits that we have a tendency to be overoptimistic on our abilities. For instance, 93% of Americans think they have above-average driving skills. This notion of our egos over-inflating our perceptions…