Recommendation engines are all the rage. Whether it is in the realm of social commerce (see IBM Coremetrics Intelligent Offer ) or in location-based social applications like Foursquare . As the attention span of…

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…

A wonderful case study came out last week of how Sequoia Hospital is using business analytics…

Techcrunch recently reported that Google (as the owner of YouTube) is looking at the purchase of Twitter-based movie recommendation site Fflick. Judging by the Fflick site today, this is more than just idle rumor: What are the implications for YouTube? On…

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…

Crisis management is generally a costly business. Switching gears away from your forward-thinking strategy and pulling in resource to deal with issues not on the radar can really stymie growth and efficiency. Especially in the IT management space. In the…

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…