Welcome to Triangle!

Triangle is a quarterly e-newsletter dedicated to practical coverage of the intersection of analytics, business and innovation. We'll share our experiences about what’s possible and what's practical with analytics. We'll also point you to upcoming events, speaking forums, case studies and webinars designed to provide an understanding of how companies are using analytics today. If there are topics of special interest to you, just let us know and we'll work them into our schedule.

We hope you enjoy Triangle.




Business Friction and the Next Generation of Decision Management: A Word from Our CEO
Decision Management (DM) can be defined in generic fashion as the application of math and logic to data to produce smarter decisions. It is sometimes called Enterprise Decision Management, though I've never seen an enterprise make a decision—it is instead a host of department heads that incrementally implement Decision Management, improving their processes and addressing business problems one at a time.

The value proposition for decision management sounds compelling and practical, even simple.

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Hosted Analytics: The Next Wave
Analytics is an indispensable technology for organizations that control substantial repositories of customer data. It is a young science which has only begun to reshape the way data-driven businesses work.

Rob Jasper, Chief Technology Officer for Intelligent Results, shares his thoughts on the future of analytics.

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PREDIGY 5.0 is the newest version of our customer data analytics and decision optimization software platform. With the expanded capabilities in PREDIGY, business users are able to better understand the costs, benefits and profitability associated with every decision, prior to implementing it. They can set triggers and alerts to help them react quickly to changes in customer, market and business conditions.

Intelligent Results' analytic applications were initially adopted by financial institutions for collections and recovery, and have since evolved to support the entire customer lifecycle. PREDIGY is currently serving the needs of financial services, utilities, telecom, and specialty retail customers. The force behind increased acceptance is the growing recognition of the need to apply sophisticated data-driven decisions to all aspects of business—from acquisition, through risk management and fraud, to execution of more cost-effective marketing, cross-sell, loyalty, and retention programs.

Enhanced features in the PREDIGY 5.0 software platform include:

  • Automated market segmentation and targeted offer management
  • Improved trend and segment analysis to better understand patterns in customer data
  • Unified analytics work flow, including predictive modeling, segmentation, clustering and strategy design all in one unified environment
  • More sophisticated and precise data mining
  • Multi-tenant and hosting capability for partners to deliver analytics in a "software as a service" model

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EVENTS

WEBINARS

Sept 11, 2007
Driving Down Utility Cost-to-Serve
Join Paul Grey from First Data Utilities and Michael Grow from Intelligent Results to learn about the latest research findings to benchmark cost-to-serve for North American utilities and identify opportunities to drive down costs to maximize profits.

Sept 18, 2007
The Art and Science of Better Decisions
Join Dave Hebert from Intelligent Results as he shares lessons learned while working with a wide array of analysts—from line of business analysts to highly technical modelers and statisticians—in their exploration of different analytical decision options.

Sept 25, 2007
Beyond Scoring: Hosted Analytics for Optimal Collections Performance
Join Don Davey from Intelligent Results and Lori Southard from First Data and learn how you can collect more, spend less and significantly increase unit yields.

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TRADE SHOWS

Sept 6, 2007
Forward Financial Expo
Card Industry Restructuring, Partnerships & Alliances
Trevor Rubel
Chief Strategy Officer,
Intelligent Results
11:00 - 12:00

Sept 5–7, 2007
Debt Connection Symposium

Oct 13-18, 2007
DMA Annual Conference and Expo

» More Trade Shows



Utilities Case Study
A conversation with Ozgur Tuzcu at DTE

 

 

 

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