Quantitative Analytics and Modeling in a Post-Crisis Era
It is my firm opinion that adding more 'models' to the mix is not the appropriate response to reduce the risk of future meltdowns. The root of the issue was not that models used for valuing securities and assessing risk are inaccurate or incomplete. The issue is that the users of the models failed to ask the right questions and did not understand the answers to the questions they did ask fully as they should.
Top Five Unconventional Uses of Business Intelligence Software
What if there was a way for you to easily determine where your child should go to college? Which streets get more parking tickets? ...
At Last, Business Intelligence Not an Oxymoron
Don't just take my word for it . . .thanks to Information Week for making business intelligence its Aug 31 cover story. The headline...
Risk Management and BI Cloud Computing – Will It Work and Who’s in Charge?
As Cloud Computing matures, will it evolve into a viable platform used by financial services organizations, including Risk Management? If so, are Business Intelligence...
Business Intelligence and Swine Flu
Business intelligence and swine flu ... it sounds like a random Google search. In reality, though, as companies race to deliver vaccines for swine...
Business Analytics for the Rest of Us
A recent story from B-to-B Magazine has details on a new offering that brings business intelligence to the MARKETING department – a place as...
RuleML 2008: PRR and rules vs decisions
One of the nice things about Business Rules Forum is that the Rule Markup Conference (RuleML08) is co-located with it. So some of us...
Business Rules Forum 2008: The BRE Vendor Panel
One of the reasons to attend conferences is for the entertainment laid on by organisers, such as the verbal boxing matches in vendor panels....
Business Rules Forum 2008: Agile, Optimization
So here we are at BRForum08, which kicked off with some tutorials. We missed Sunday's worthy sessions, including Ron Ross' overview, Neil Raden and...
High-performance event-driven executable UML?
Next week sees another OMG Technical Meeting, co-hosted with the SOA Consortium. OMG is mostly known for its UML modeling language, and one...