At a “Competing on Business Analytics” event sponsored by SAS and Accenture in Chicago this week, Mike Haaf, former Food Lion SVP of Sales, Marketing, and Business Strategy, described a broad and successful program of analytical marketing and operations at the Carolina-based grocery retailer. When Haaf arrived at the company in 2003, its performance was [...]
IIA is grateful for the underwriting support provided by the analytics industry’s leading service and software providers. Founding Underwriter: SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites [...]
Endeca has made a name for itself in “guided navigation” search (well, not a household name — it was recently called, “one of the larger software companies in Boston that no one has ever really heard about”). It serves online retailers by helping them make their products more findable, including Wal-Mart, Target, Tesco, Home Depot, [...]
Making better decisions — it is the ultimate goal of any analytics initiative and the passion of analytics’ executives. After all, there is no sense in crunching data just for the sake of crunching. No, we want to enable the decisions that boost revenue, cut costs, and deepen customer relationships. Eric Siegel, the conference chair [...]
The consolidation in the business intelligence software space continues with IBM’s announcement that it will acquire SPSS, Inc. for $1.2 billion. According to the New York Times, Jim Davis off rival SAS, the largest supplier in the market, “The attractiveness of these companies ‘reflects the increasing pressure by senior management of corporations for ‘tighter, fact-based [...]
