by James Taylor | Jan 7, 2014 | Decision Management, Product News
Continuing my series on standards in Predictive Analytics I am going to talk first about PMML. PMML is an XML standard for the interchange of predictive analytic models developed by the Data Mining Group. The basic structure is an XML format document that contains a...
by James Taylor | Jan 6, 2014 | Decision Management
Happy New Year. This week’s white paper is one from 2012: Beyond Business Agility: Becoming Adaptive and Analytic or how to use more than just business rules to develop systems more effectively. Business rules are a powerful tool for developing agile...
by James Taylor | Dec 26, 2013 | Decision Management, Product News
Back in 2008 I wrote this post – The small impact of business rules on the big players, bemoaning the lack of serious investment in business rules on the part of major software companies. As we enter 2014 I thought I would revisit this post and consider what a...
by James Taylor | Dec 18, 2013 | Decision Management
I am working on a paper, for publication in early 2014, on the role of standards such as R, Hadoop and PMML in the mainstreaming of predictive analytics. As I do so I will be publishing a few blog posts. I thought I would start with a quick introduction to the topic...
by James Taylor | Dec 18, 2013 | Decision Management
I am giving the opening keynote for the BIWA Summit 2014 January 14-16, 2014 at the Oracle HQ Conference Center in Redwood Shores, CA. It’s an Oracle-focused event, obviously, with some novel and interesting use cases of Oracle Big Data, Exadata, Advanced...
