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    1. 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)

    2. 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.

    3. 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

    4. 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

    5. 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.

    6. Predictive Analytics Made Easy - Consumer Marketing

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Dec 14 2011) Predictive Analytics , Data Analysis , Data Analysis Tools , Predictive Analytics News , Predictive Analytics Tools

      Consumer marketing is all about understanding which messages work with which types of customers. Promotions in all forms are frequently sent out, and results come back in a variety of ways. Some of that can be clicked-through information, some purchase information, some contact information from in-person or email-based contacts. There is a ton of information, and an effective marketer is adept and skilled at finding the stories and messages within that information, and then adjusting how they operate to improve. Consumer marketing is being greatly enabled by new data discovery and data analysis tools which make it easy for marketers ... (Read Full Article)

    7. 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

    8. 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

    9. 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)

    10. 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

    11. 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.

    12. 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.

    13. 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

    14. 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

    15. 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

    16. 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

    17. 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

    18. 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.

    19. 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.

    20. 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.

    21. ADVIZOR Solutions® Inc. brings Business Intelligence and Data Analysis to Individual Users

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Jun 16 2011) Data Analysis , Data Analysis Tools

      Data Discovery and Analysis Software provider ADVIZOR Solutions announced a new line of product offerings focused on Individual data analysis. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   ADVIZOR Solutions Inc.   ADVIZOR Data Discovery   Doug Cogswell

    22. Visual Analysis

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Jun 15 2011) Interactive Visual Analysis , Visual Analysis Tools

      Visual analysis is getting widespread recognition as one of the key new software tools that are enabling business people to do data exploration and discovery on their own, without relying on outside experts to query databases or to perform complex analysis. The idea behind visual analysis is to present business data in interactive visualization charts that make it very easy for businesspeople to see trends, patterns, and outliers in their data. In addition to seeing these factors, the visualizations are interactive, meaning that the business manager or analyst can simply click on or select (using a computer mouse) items of ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Doug Cogswell   ADVIZOR Solutions , Inc.

    23. Free trial of Predictive Analytics Software

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Jun 12 2011) Data Visualization Tools , Interactive Data Visualization , Predictive Analytics , Data Analysis Tools , Predictive Analytics News , Predictive Analytics Tools

      Analyst/X Office 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 Office is ideal for performing interactive analysis on all types of data to drive fact-based decision making. Descriptive and Predictive analytics for causal factor determination Key field/variable analytics Missing values calculations Target value prediction (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   ADVIZOR Solutions , Inc.   Microsoft Office   Adobe

    24. Bloor Research Review of Data Visualization Tools

      Explore Data Visualization Tools (Jun 10 2011) Data Visualization Tools , Interactive Data Visualization , Data Analysis , Data Analysis Tools

      Advizor’s strengths are clearly on the visualisation side (especially with its interactive capabilities) and it is probably one of the two leading providers in this area in the market. In addition, its Data Pool architecture is also a significant advantage, though we like to see additional (easy-to-use) facilities for discovering and defining relationships across datasets. Nevertheless, the two sets of capabilities offer compelling functionality that cannot be found anywhere else. Any company (and particularly users of Advizor partner products) that has any sort of sophisticated interest in business intelligence should be looking seriously at ADVIZOR Solutions. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   ADVIZOR Solutions , Inc.   Bloor Research   Philip Howard