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There are many sentiment analysis tools for smaller businesses, but not so many that will incorporate internal documents and bespoke formats (call-centre records for example). The products listed below will do this, and many provide an API for application integration. Methods used vary, and include text mining, natural language processing…

As data sources proliferate so the need for good ETL tools increases. Here is a fairly extensive list of ETL tools currently available. Free ETL Tools Talend Open Source Data Integrator provides multiple solutions for data integration, both open source and commercial editions. Talend offers an Eclipse-based interface, drag-and-drop design…

What is prescriptive analytics? – in short it is concerned with the optimal use of resources (people, transport, machines etc.) given a set of constraints and a well defined objective. One of the classical use cases is found in logistics – which loads should be batched together, and which routes used…

IBM has announced 20 new industry-specific solutions with pre-built predictive analytics capabilities that will make it easier and faster for organizations across industries like retail, banking, telecommunications, insurance and others, to uncover and act on critical business insights. To ensure these solutions address the most critical business requirements in each…

Appian is well regarded for its ease of use, and its cloud based BPMS is an attractive alternative for many customers. BPMN solutions can be rapidly built through drag-and-drop functionality and a native process repository captures and stores process models for rapid reuse. Business rules can be created to define…

Data Integration Tools 2015 The data integration tools listed here are broken down into platforms that are part of a larger suite of products, platforms that are independent and those that are open source. Some products are listed in their open source community editions and the enhanced, supported editions. Data Integration…