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James Taylor

This channel will help you learn to compete by automating and improving your operational decisions. By discussing business and technology challenges faced by organizations attempting to compete on decisions, I'll move you along from reporting to analytics to decisions. Each month will bring new insights, best practices, commentary and research about this emerging market. Your questions, comments and suggestions will be critical in the evolution of the channel, so please e-mail me at james@smartenoughsystems so we can provide the information you want and need.

Books

Smart Enough Systems: How to Deliver Competitive Advantage by Automating Hidden Decisions  

Smart Enough Systems: How to Deliver Competitive Advantage by Automating Hidden Decisions
This book provides a unique perspective on how using established technologies in a new way can solve problems and create competitive advantage. Learn more

Articles

News

White Papers

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    A ROAD Map for IT/Business Collaboration
    This white paper explains a rules-oriented architecture and application development process for bridging the gaps that exist between IT coding business logic and users driving dynamic applications that assist with or automate their decision making.

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    The Convergence of Business Intelligence, Business Process Management, and Business Rules
    This white paper examines how business intelligence, business rules engines and business process management can best fit together as well as the purpose of each technology independent of the others.

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Business Intelligence Resources

Resources

    Associations

    Business Rules Community
    Business Rules Community is a vertical, non-commercial community for business rule professionals. BRCommunity provides articles, commentary, discussion areas, and a variety of other valuable hands-on resources.

    CRISP-DM
    The CRISP-DM project developed an industry- and tool-neutral data mining process model. Starting from the embryonic knowledge discovery processes used in early data mining projects and responding directly to user requirements, this project defined and validated a data mining process that is applicable in diverse industry sectors. This methodology makes large data mining projects faster, cheaper, more reliable and more manageable. Even small scale data mining investigations benefit from using CRISP-DM.

    Data Mining Group
    The Data Mining Group (DMG) is an independent, vendor-led group that develops data mining standards, such as the Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML).

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Links

    Online Publications/Magazines

    KDNuggets News
    KDnuggets News is a newsletter for the data mining and knowledge discovery community. KDnuggets News is free and includes news, software, jobs, courses, events, webcasts, and other topics related to data mining and knowledge discovery.

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Events