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IoT & IIoT 4.0:
What's next
· German initiative: analytics everywhere
· Unleash endless business opportunities
· How BPM empowers IoT business users
ALSO INSIDE:
· CIA's new transparency
Analytics' role in opening access
· Pricing, promotion decisions
ROI for consumer goods industry
· Analytics @ Google
Tech giant a `candy store for O.R.'
· `Poetical scientist'
The first female computer scientist
Executive Edge
Mather Economics President
Matt Lindsay on why
the devil is in not having
details, so get granular
INSIDE STORY
IoT: The next gen
While techies debate the state of the
Internet of Things and its potential to
transform the way we interact with almost
everyth
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INSIDE STORY IoT: The next gen While techie
Prescriptive Analytics? Join a unique Collaborati
CONTENTS DRIVING BETTER BUSINESS DECISIONS
Welcome to Analytic Solver® Cloud-based Simulatio
18 70 DEPARTMENTS 2 Inside Story 8
Welcome to Analytic Solver® Cloud-based Optimizat
EXECUTIVE EDGE The devil is in not having detail
Welcome to Analytic Solver® Cloud-based Data and
EXECUTIVE EDGE and residential customers. Its b
to develop the business case for a sports- only d
EXECUTIVE EDGE addition, local fans were much l
Stop compromising. With FICO's advanced analytic
A N A LY Z E T H I S ! Carefully considering som
are intended for a relatively non-technical audie
A N A LY Z E T H I S ! with an army of data sci
happen here. And our individual choic- es will de
HEALTHCARE ANALYTICS The future of U.S. healthca
disagreement in the views among the lawmakers.
HEALTHCARE ANALYTICS State run health insur
to adopt data digitization technology such as
INFORMS INITIATIVES Analytics programs, new logo
The all-day event is free of charge; reg-
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ASSOCIATE CERTIFIED ANALYTICS PROFESSIONAL An
FORUM Revisiting advertising effectiveness Th
would create $1 million in extra sales. The ex
FORUM greater access to information, consumers
Healthcare 2017 OPTIMIZING OPERATIONS & OUTCOMES
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY The CIA’s new transpar
The historically secretive CIA is moving toward o
CIA: NEW TRANSPARENCY profile and its policy of
“But everyone agrees that we do have a pr
CIA: NEW TRANSPARENCY “CIA is doing the pilot,
No matter what the new administra- tion deci
RETURN ON INVESTMENT Driving smarter decisions
There’s often little or incomplete measurement of
PRICING & PROMOTIONS product groups. The events
“zero-sum” game – i.e., a win for one side implie
INTERNET OF THINGS Industrie 4.0: Analytics ev
embed analytics across the entire value chain.
GERMANY: INDUSTRIE 4.0 be confused with, Indust
getting involved and taking a lead in analytics a
GERMANY: INDUSTRIE 4.0 solutions and prototypes
perhaps even teaming with competitors to make the
INTERNET OF THINGS IoT unleashes endless bus
and devices worldwide by 2020’s close. This
INTERNET OF THINGS where people are using mobil
1. Data: Capturing, storing and analyzing d
INTERNET OF THINGS BPM empowering IoT business
IoT devices excel at sensing, alerting, augmentin
I o T & B PM IoT devices send collected
non-technical staff to be able to rapidly •
I o T & B PM Solution: By implementing a
Is the largest association for analytics in the
CORPORATE PROFILE Analytics @ Google Advance
Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. As
ANALYTICS @ GOOGLE time, they discover that the
and they typically work in roles such as data
ANALYTICS @ GOOGLE team is comprised of operati
organized around methods. This Paris-based grou
ANALYTICS @ GOOGLE high-resolution satellite
A software engineering team in Net- work A
ESSAY: ROMANCE & SCIENCE Ada Lovelace: ‘poeti
in “Second Machine Age” [1], the authors asser
POETICAL SCIENTIST to your ideals, no matter wh
For example, people at that time would ha
POETICAL SCIENTIST When we build quantitative m
algorithm. This echoes the view that data scienti
CONFERENCE PREVIEW Viva Las Vegas! Analytics 201
speakers and organize the presentations that comp
FIVE-MINUTE ANALYST The force is strong with cor
yet complete. CA indicator score analy- sis of da
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Why gamble with your analytics? Gain real-world i
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