The world of analytics technologies is proliferating – business intelligence, predictive analytics, prescriptive analytics, machine learning, data mining, statistical analysis, visual analytics. On top of this we have a similar proliferation of data technologies – in-memory columnar database, relational databases, Hadoop, Spark, noSQL, and so on. It is easy to…
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Decision Management
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It’s OK to admit it – you are not alone: very few people have come across the term ‘Decision Management’, and it’s not exactly the sexiest name either. It competes with ‘paving stone’ or ‘green salad’ for impact. Artificial Intelligence however is everywhere because it intrigues, frightens and excites all…
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We analyse data because we need to answer questions. What did sales look like last month? Why was production low in a particular unit? How has the customer base responded to the latest promotion? The questions are endless, and so is the need for business analytics technologies and methods. Fortunately…
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[vc_button title=”Download Decision Orient BPM Report” target=”_blank” color=”default” size=”default2″ href=”http://butleranalytics.com/wp-content/uploads/Decision-Oriented-Business-Process-Management.pdf”] Excerpt: The unit of work for many information workers and managers is the decision. Call center operatives spend most of their time deciding which products and services to offer a customer, and the deals that might be attractive. Managers move…
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A great deal of what passes for a ‘business process’ is actually decision logic, and so large numbers of decisions are already embedded into processes in program code. As such they lack transparency, accessibility, quality control mechanisms and are extremely difficult to orchestrate. By treating decisions as more than…
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The unit of work for many information workers and managers is the decision. Call center operatives spend most of their time deciding which products and services to offer a customer, and the deals that might be attractive. Managers move from one decision to another on an ongoing basis. In…
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Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) systems exploit methods and technologies to improve the efficacy and efficiency of decision making through the organisation. This is in contrast to traditional systems which have almost exclusively been concerned with process automation and improved efficiency through labour displacement. The technologies employed in EDM include predictive…