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    1. "Consuming Big Data" Webinar by ADVIZOR Solutions

      Explore Web Conferencing | GoToMeeting (Feb 15 2012) Data Analysis , Visual Reporting and Analysis

      "Big Data" has been getting major coverage by the industry analysts and press recently.  In this 45 minute webinar Mark Sear, Chief Data Scientist from EMC Greenplum (UK), will discuss the acquisition, indexing, and storage of big data, and Doug Cogswell from ADVIZOR Solutions will share how end-users can consume it.  Together they will discuss the full solution spectrum.

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      Mentions:   Mac OS   ADVIZOR Solutions Inc.   Doug Cogswell

    2. Improving Fundraising Performance in Healthcare

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Jan 2 2012) Predictive Analytics News , Predictive Analytics Tools , Predictive Analytics Videos

      Today fundraisers have access to more data than ever before. Yet the explosion of data has not always helped key staff make sense of it all....Learn more and view the recent webinar!! (Read Full Article)

    3. Predictive Analytics Made Easy - Human Resources

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Dec 21 2011) Predictive Analytics , Data Analysis , Data Analysis Tools , Predictive Analytics News , Predictive Analytics Tools

      New data discovery and data analysis tools are making it really easy for human resources professionals to get a firm grip on their organizations and intercept staff issues much more easily than ever before. Corporate HR systems contain a goldmine of very useful predictive information that can be used to highlight and then address problems. With new software tools this can easily be done with in-house teams, eliminating the time and cost of going to outside consultants to get this kind of work done. Let's look at a simple example.  A manager wants to understand where in his organization ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   ADVIZOR Solutions Inc.

    4. Predictive Analytics Made Easy - Higher Education

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Dec 19 2011) Predictive Analytics , Data Analysis , Data Analysis Tools , Predictive Analytics News , Predictive Analytics Tools

      New, end-user focused data discovery and data analysis tools are making it easy for higher education professionals to quickly build predictive models on their own – – without help from other outside experts. In the past, building a predictive model required somebody in IT to prepare special data sets. Then that data had to be loaded into a modeling tool, and a an analyst with statistical background would need to build a model, assess the output, and then take that model back to the database to score and find expected behaviors. Today, new software that combines in-memory data management, interactive visualization, and ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   ADVIZOR Solutions Inc.   University

    5. Healthcare Revenue Management

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Dec 17 2011) Data Visualization Tools

         The Need for a Payer Strategy COA, a major medical clinic in the Southwest U.S., was challenged a year ago when they learned that one of their payers was giving an exclusive contract for oncology to another provider. How was COA going to handle this loss of revenue, the impact on patients, potential loss of other patients, and what could they do to recover? The practice administrator at COA was tasked with quickly sorting out these issues. COA is a multi-site clinic with fifteen providers but does not have a large IT team or dedicated business analysts, so running ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Healthcare   ADVIZOR Solutions Inc.   EMR

    6. Predictive Analytics Made Easy - Healthcare

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Dec 16 2011) Interactive Data Visualization , Predictive Analytics , Data Analysis , Data Analysis Tools , Predictive Analytics News , Predictive Analytics Tools

      Healthcare providers generate a ton of information that can be used to improve the quality and cost of their care.  However, older business intelligence systems (which are primarily reporting in nature) have not done a good job of empowering provider teams to do this kind of analysis and work. New data discovery and data analysis tools are making it very easy for healthcare professionals to analyze their data and understand causation and patterns within it that lead them to better operating decisions. These tools can be used by management and key staff and providers, without needing to hire outside consultants ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Healthcare   ADVIZOR Solutions Inc.

    7. Free Predictive Analytics Webinar - Quantitative Modeling & Scoring Made Easy

      Explore Web Conferencing | GoToMeeting (Nov 10 2011) Predictive Analytics Webinar , Predictive Analytics News

      Please join us on November 17th at 12:00p.m. EST for our next webinar titled “Predictive Analytics: Quantitative Modeling and Scoring Made Easy” While this webinar focuses on examples from the higher education sector, the principles are universal. This webinar focuses on how predictive analytics can be used by your team to make better decisions every day, without help from consultants or other outside experts. We will demonstrate how to use predictive analytics to find and rank new target donors for a fundraising campaign, and then discuss hands on experience, including “how to”, what worked, and what didn’t ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   ADVIZOR Solutions Inc.   Doug Cogswell   Michigan State University

    8. Agile BI Strategy Implementation

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Oct 6 2011) Agile BI news

      Agile BI is making it easier for business end-users to lever their core information assets easily. This is empowerment, and part of the move to distribute autonomous access to information. It has also been called the information democracy, or the information buffet. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   ADVIZOR Solutions Inc.   Doug Cogswell

    9. Interactive Data Visualization in Healthcare Clinical Performance

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Sep 30 2011) Data Visualization Tools , Interactive Data Visualization

      The Sudbury Regional Hospital in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, is one of 14 in the province of Ontario. Regional Cancer Providers, such as Sudbury (created and funded through Cancer Care Ontario), “respond to local cancer issues, coordinate care across local and regional healthcare providers, and work to continually improve access to care, reduce wait times and improve quality” for their patients. A key consideration for  RCP funding is reducing patient wait times so, for Sudbury Ontario, obtaining daily updates on patient wait times is a critical issue. Clinicians and management alike need detailed wait time information on a per-site, per-provider basis ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   ADVIZOR Solutions , Inc.   Canada   Ontario

    10. Agile Bi - driven by new enabling technologies

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Sep 27 2011) Interactive Data Visualization , Predictive Analytics , Predictive Analytics News , Agile BI news

      The key thrust of Agile BI is clearly enabling end-users to work with their core information assets in ways never before possible. A well-implemented agile BI system allows business people to access/slice and dice/muck around in data in ways never before possible from wherever they happen to be and whenever they need to do it. In other articles we have described how the process needs to change to put the end-user first. That remains paramount. But the solutions that enable this are powered by new technologies that just were not available or possible even 5 or 10 years ... (Read Full Article)

    11. ADVIZOR Solutions®, Inc. Announces Commitment to Mobile Devices

      Explore redorbit.com (Aug 18 2011) Predictive Analytics , Predictive Analytics News , Agile BI news

      CHICAGO, Aug. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Data Discovery and Analysis Software provider ADVIZOR Solutions, Inc . has been changing the way its customers work with their data, and has become a leader in the Business Intelligence community. As part of the movement to Agile Business Intelligence (Agile BI), ADVIZOR Solutions is announcing its commitment to support mobile devices including Android and ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   PR Newswire More News   ADVIZOR Data Discovery   Doug Cogswell

    12. Initiating your Agile BI Strategy

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Aug 9 2011) Interactive Data Visualization , Agile BI news

      Creating an effective Agile BI strategy is not about technology. Rather, it's all about the business end-users. The goal is not to replicate the current reporting and information systems, but rather to do something profoundly new and different that enables the end-users to make better and faster decisions In that context, an effective agile BI strategy must include three key steps: 1. Know your end-users. 2. Get them to articulate the questions they are trying to answer. 3. Get them to articulate why they cant answer those questions with what they currently have. Current systems do provide business users ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   ADVIZOR Solutions Inc.   Doug Cogswell

    13. Predictive Analytics - Classification and Forecasting Models

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Aug 2 2011) Predictive Analytics , Predictive Analytics News , Predictive Analytics Tools

      The idea behind predictive analytics tools is to use mathematical algorithms to find patterns and trends in data.  From those patterns and trends, information is gleaned that helps business managers understand causal factors that are driving behaviors in their business. In addition, the models created by predictive analytics tools can be used to “score” or “predict” a set of data to determine others that might fit into the same behavior pattern in the future.  So the basic concept is, a business user selects one of two things:   1.  A target he or she wants to compare to the rest of ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Doug Cogswell   ADVIZOR Solutions , Inc.

    14. Predictive Analytics – good news

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Jul 11 2011) Predictive Analytics , Predictive Analytics News , Predictive Analytics Tools

      One of the hottest topics in business intelligence recently has been Predictive Analytics. Properly used, predictive analytics can quickly identify factors behind trends in segmented behavior and data, and that information can be used to create a better understanding of the business situation as well as to score or "predict" future behavior or to identify other entities who might be expected to have the same behavior that others have already exhibited.  The tools are powerful, and can be used for both strategic and tactical decision-making (e.g., analyzing data in “batch-mode” to create new understandings, decisions, interactions), or can be ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Doug Cogswell   ADVIZOR Solutions , Inc.

    15. Free Trial of Predictive Analytics

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Jul 8 2011) Predictive Analytics , Predictive Analytics News

      Analyst/X Office by ADVIZOR Solutions Inc. is a Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista, 7) client-based solution that enables users to visually analyze desktop and enterprise data. Users can create customized dashboards and export findings to Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF products. Analyst/X Office is ideal for performing interactive analysis on all types of data to drive fact-based decision making. Designed for individual users importing and analyzing data from Microsoft Excel, Access and SalesForce.com. Now with: Descriptive and Predictive analytics for causal factor determination Key field/variable analytics Missing values calculations Target value prediction Download your free 30-day trial (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   ADVIZOR Solutions Inc.   Doug Cogswell   Microsoft Windows

    16. Predictive Analytics meets Agile BI

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Jul 7 2011) Interactive Data Visualization , Predictive Analytics , Predictive Analytics News , Predictive Analytics Tools , Agile BI news , Agile BI webinars

      As Business Intelligence (BI) moves towards the masses, two popular forces are colliding to create a lot of energy and excitement: Predictive Analytics, and Agile BI. Agile BI is all about enabling every day business users to access their business information to perform discovery and analysis tasks wherever and whenever they want to. Unlike the days of old, business people no longer need to rely on outside experts to prepare information or interpret results. Information is available readily on a wide range of devices, on-demand, in a format that is easy to work with. Agile BI has been driven by ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Interactive Data Visualization   ADVIZOR Solutions Inc.   Doug Cogswell

    17. Agile Bi - Basics

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Jul 7 2011) Interactive Data Visualization , Predictive Analytics , Predictive Analytics News , Agile BI news , Agile BI webinars

      There has been a lot of recent writing and talk about the advent of agile BI. The basic idea is that business people can access their BI systems from anywhere at any time to make quick, fact-based decisions on-the-fly. There are three core components to Agile BI:   Quick and flexible access to data   Intuitive display and easy interaction   Access from anywhere, at any time New in-memory based data storage technologies have enabled business people to have easy and quick access to their corporate data. Rather than residing in pre-structured database tables, large amounts of information can now be placed in-memory ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   ADVIZOR Solutions Inc.   Doug Cogswell

    18. What is Agile BI?

      Explore it-analysis.com (Jul 7 2011) Agile BI news

      A question that is posed by many people is, "what is Agile BI, what does it mean?" (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Enterprise   Endeca   Master Data Management

    19. Gartner Data Visualization

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Jun 29 2011) Gartner Reports , Interactive Data Visualization

      Gartner, one of the leading technology consulting and analyst companies, has been increasingly discussing interactive data visualization as a key enabling technology for widespread use and penetration of business intelligence into business communities.  A variety of their recent reports (for example, “The Rise of Data Discovery Tools”, BI Platforms User Survey 2011”, etc…) have described how new enabling technologies (which include interactive data visualization, in-memory data management and new easier-to-use forms of predictive modeling) are enabling business people to understand and work with data in ways never before possible. Interactive data visualization is leading the way because it both presents ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   ADVIZOR Solutions , Inc.   Gartner Research

    20. Free Webinar - "Agile BI...what is it?"

      Explore Web Conferencing | GoToMeeting (Jun 29 2011) Data Analysis , Visual Reporting and Analysis , Agile BI news , Agile BI webinars

      The topic “Agile Business Intelligence” (“Agile BI”) is picking up momentum with industry analysts and the trade press. More and more we read about BI being available to every-day business users, not just a handful of key staff in IT or power user business analysts. This new paradigm is enabling more people to make better and faster decisions on their own, without relying on other experts to prepare or interpret their data. This webinar will focus on the following questions: • What exactly is agile BI? • How does Agile BI enable every-day business people to access their data? • How is Agile ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Doug Cogswell   ADVIZOR Solutions , Inc.

    21. Visual Reporting and Visual Analysis

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Jun 23 2011) TDWI News , TDWI Reports

      A recent TDWI report highlighted the combination of visual reporting and visual analysis as a key new trend in business intelligence.  A copy of the full report is available by clicking here: TDWI Report: Visual Analysis and Reporting. Seeing is Knowing (2011)  This report describes how these new technologies are allowing every-day business people to make faster and better decisions from their underlying business data.  There are two related concepts that work together:  Visual Reporting and Visual Analysis.  Visual Reporting is the display of data in charts, graphs, and tables that make it easy to see the patterns, trends and ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Doug Cogswell   ADVIZOR Solutions , Inc.   Tdwi

    22. Agile BI

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Jun 23 2011) Interactive Data Visualization , Agile BI news

      The topic “Agile Business Intelligence” (“Agile BI”) is picking up momentum with industry analysts and the trade press. More and more we read about BI being available to every-day business users, not just a handful of key staff in IT or who are core business analysts. This new paradigm is enabling more people to make better and faster decisions on their own, without relying on other experts to prepare or interpret their data.   What exactly is agile BI? There seem to be three different perspectives:     Enabling every-day business people to access their data Leveraging new, easier-to-use BI technologies Providing access ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Doug Cogswell   ADVIZOR Solutions , Inc.

    23. The importance of Predictive Analytics

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Jun 16 2011) Predictive Analytics , Predictive Analytics News

      Predictive analytics has been getting a lot of press recently. But what exactly is it, and what kinds of business problems is it most useful for?     The key idea behind predictive analytics is to use mathematical modeling to find factors that make one set of data different than another, and then to use those factors to “score” or “predict” other members (people, products, events, etc.) that have the same characteristics of and hence be expected to have the same behavior as the selected target.   Human beings can look at data in charts/tables and understand a lot of what's ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Doug Cogswell   ADVIZOR Solutions , Inc.

    24. Predictive Analytics – doing it yourself versus using consultants

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Jun 16 2011) Interactive Data Visualization , Predictive Analytics , Predictive Analytics News

      In the past business managers have often farmed out predictive analytics work to outside consultants because that work required special expertise in statistical analysis or advanced analytics. With new data discovery and analysis tools which leverage combinations of in-memory data management, interactive visualization, and predictive analytics, managers and business analysts can now do this work on their own without relying on such outside experts. The result is much faster and better decisions. Better, because the in-house team knows the data and can interpret the results much better than outside experts who may know how to run a statistical model, but ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   ADVIZOR Solutions , Inc.

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