SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. SAS predictive analytics and data mining solutions were evaluated by Forrester against 53 criteria in three categories through vendor surveys, product demonstration and vendor-reference interviews. SAS earned top overall ranking in all three categories — current offering, strategy and market presence — including perfect scores for functionality, professional services, licensing and cost, direction, and company financials criteria and has been named a leader among nine vendors in The Forrester Wave: Predictive Analytics and Data Mining Solutions, Q1 2010.
Today’s industry generates large volumes of data from all sectors such as financial, retail, factory, call centers, and customer products, and so forth, SAS Analytics lets them realize the value within these growing volumes of data.
Information Builders, which leads the pervasive business intelligence (BI) systems, announced the release of WebFOCUS RStat 1.2, an integrated modern BI platform that to create predictive applications.
Benefits:
It appeals to a broad group of business analysts and an operational employee because of it significantly reduces the “IT complexity” for non-statistically trained users. It has become a general-purpose data mining and statistical tool. RStat provides greater business benefits by enabling more employees at all levels in an organization to take advantage of a predictive solution and make better decisions. RStat 1.2 dramatically lowers the cost of predictive analytics. By fully integrating RStat with WebFOCUS, customers benefit from significantly lower costs of mining projects simply by providing efficient access to data. Ninety percent of costs in statistical and mining projects are in data access and manipulation — two activities that are easier with BI tools. Additionally, the integration on the reporting server lowers deployment costs by minimizing the need for additional hardware. Instead of having a statistical server and a BI server, RStat 1.2 enables customers to conduct both BI and predictive modeling from a single server. Having this type of integrated environment makes the deployment of a predictive scoring solution much simpler and faster than older statistical systems. Information Builders is providing RStat free for modeling and analysis services as part of its Developer Studio product.
What’s NEW:
The new features provided in this tool are:-
– Survival analysis – included as an additional statistical modeling technique and scoring routine with both COX regression and Kaplan-Mayer.
– Library of scoring routines – expanded to advanced models such as Neural Networks.
– Charting capabilities – expanded with new charts that are relevant for survival analysis.
– Testing – Traditional hypothesis testing methods, such as T and F tests, have also been added.
If you are an existing Information Builders customer and you have a standard Developer Studio (version 7.6.9 or higher) license, click here to download your free copy of WebFOCUS RStat now! Just log in and select Download > My Downloads/Shipments. Registration is required.
About ‘INFORMATION BUILDERS:
Information Builders’ award-winning combination of business intelligence and enterprise integration software has been providing innovative solutions to more than 12,000 customers for the past 30 years. WebFOCUS is the world’s most widely utilized business intelligence platform. It provides the security, scalability, and flexibility needed at every level of global extended enterprises. Its simplicity helps create executive, analytical, and operational applications that reach dozens to millions of users. Information Builders’ iWay Software suite provides state of the art, multi-purpose, pre-built integration components that address all SOA, application, data and information management requirements. Its integration adapters have been adopted by the leading software platform providers. Information Builders also offers solutions in the performance management, business activity monitoring, and enterprise search markets. The company’s comprehensive enterprise product offerings give Information Builders’ customers the ability to grow and innovate according to their needs. Information Builders’ customers include most of the Fortune 100 and U.S. federal government agencies. Headquartered in New York City with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,450 people and has more than 350 business partners. More information is available at informationbuilders.com.
Also Lets listen to Chris Brady of DSC on WebFOCUS:
The new Tweet-o-Meter is used to measure and visualize the amount of tweets sent around different cities. This tool allows us to pull in every 30 km area of any urban area. At the moment, the system can visualize New York, London, Paris, Munich, San Francisco, Barcelona, Oslo, Tokyo, Rome, Moscow and Sydney.
Tweet-o-Meter mines the data for later analysis relating to furthering our understanding of social and temporal dynamics for e-social science within the twitter demographic. The research is undertaken at CASA, university college London as a part of a wider survey tool as part of the NeISS project being coded by Steven gray, in association with urban Tick and Digital Urban.
The Tweet-o-Meter currently in beta mode updates every 10 seconds by displaying the city with highest number of tweets. A wider ranging system is being launched as part of a free data collection service via NeISS in the next couple of months.
It would be really cool to have real time graphs below which show either a daily or an hourly trend of the twitting happening around the world.
Is it true that, “New York is the city that never sleeps!”? Do Londoners send more Tweets than New Yorkians’? Is Oslo a bigger Tweeter than Munich? Is Tokyo as much into Tweets as Barcelona? Has San Francisco calmed down after all that talk about the iPad? Tweet-o-Meter Knows! But when will the Tweet-O-Meter enlighten us on this information? We should eagerly wait and watch.
Currently, only 50 out of the total 8,300 kindergartens across the Korea use robots. The Ministry of Education plans to provide 800 robots to kindergartens in underprivileged parts of the country tin 2010. “We plan to provide robots to kindergartens in the rural areas and encourage others to voluntarily use robots. We expect all kindergartens nationwide to use robots by 2013.”- Ministry official.
The BEST part of this program is that the kids and teachers love the idea of robots in the class. Not only the robots aid the teacher in reducing the time spent on checking student attendance, or checking whether students are active or not, but also the students enjoy communicate with the robots through the robots speech and voice technology. The ministry has designated the state-run Korea Institute of Science and Technology as a main organization handling matters related to the establishment of the system.
Features offered by the Robots:
Checking student attendance
Connect to the internet through a computer and register students’ attendance records on a special website, through which parents can find out whether their children have arrived safely
Read out “Treasure Island,” an adventure novel by Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson, with pictures displayed on 7 inch screen.
Singing songs
Having conversations with students
Recording voices
Taking photos.
Responds when someone touches the robots head, hands and feet.
Data Mining when implied smartly and correctly in your day to day business,is named Business Intelligence. According to Mr. Kevin Falconer, GM of local storage and networking distributor, Channel Data,” Most dealers and resellers are awash with valuable data that could make a significant difference to their bottom line, if used correctly.” Data mining means […]
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