Analytic Lessons Learned From the Big Game

Proof that analytics is in every part of our lives, even american football. There are a few take aways from the sport that can be applied to analytics.

1. Get the Jump 
2. Win on the Edge
3. Improve Upon What’s Already Working
4. Change Your Culture
5. Don’t Dismiss Intuition

I contribute regularly to CMSWire here is a link to the article "The Denver Broncos Analytic Game"

Opening the doors of Big Data Innovation

When I first got into this business, it was enough to figure out how many widgets were sold in a particular region. Now, companies want to know how many widgets were sold in a particular region, in a certain color, to a specific customer, 10 minutes ago. Or, even better, they want to be able to predict the result before it happens. This takes a different approach to information—one that requires IT and business people to be in lockstep before opening the data floodgates....

I often blog as the Chief Research Officer for Dell Software - Read this entire post on Dell.com

Its all about the Quants

The term Quants has gained a lot of traction over the past couple years. Tom Davenport's book “Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics” brought the term to the mainstream and introduced us to a new breed of business expert that is driving innovation and insights with data. Quants are teaming with the business to create new opportunities to compete while driving revenue and optimizing the workflows. These math minded experts have become the rock stars of the data world and a new tool for success within progressive data centric companies. In this week’s #ThinkChat segment Tom and I discuss what quants are and where they fit in your organization, the critical role of math, statistics and how quants are working with the business.

I often blog as the Chief Research Officer for Dell Software - Read this entire post on Dell.com

Process Driven Analytics For Manufacturing

Innovative companies are adopting advanced analytics to take action and match the speed of their business. This is especially true in the world of manufacturing where complicated process driven activities benefit greatly from smarter, faster analytic insights and actions. Collecting and analyzing process data from sophisticated manufacturing processes requires a flexible and agile infrastructure that supports a wide variety of disparate data sources often spanning sensor and machine sources that are combined with instrumentation and testing data, machinery and production data, customer and market data, supply chain information, 3rd party benchmarks and a wide assortment of system data. 

I often blog as the Chief Research Officer for Dell Software - Read this entire post on Dell.com

Cloud Based API Management - IronCloud

StrikeIron has overhauled its IronCloud solution and relaunched it this week. The solution is a fully hosted Cloud API Management platform. The solution had previously only been available to StrikeIron clients and partners is now open to any company seeking a better smarter way to manage their API based offerings. StrikeIron earned its stripes in this space by hosting its own API's for contact record validation and verification, mobile messaging and data enrichment. StrikeIron developed enterprise class security and infrastructure to host and deliver its service and has been in the API space for over 10 years.

IronCloud provides a simple yet powerful platform designed for business users and IT who are responsible for managing and delivering API powered assets. As enterprise application and data requirements evolve and become more diverse. API's are playing a significant roll in adding agility and flexibility to enterprise environments. Being able to leverage API's through common interfaces that are simple and manageable will be a key component of any smart business strategy. 

StrikeIron solutions are pre-integrated into Eloqua, Informatica, Oracle CRM On-Demand, Marketo and more.