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It’s hard to grow your business if you can’t see what’s coming next. What will the demand be for a specific product or service and how should you adjust production? What revenue can be expected and from which channels? Where are the best areas to expand your business? Predictive analytics can provide the answers executives, analysts and business managers need to reduce costs, operate more efficiently and increase the bottom line. Join IBM SPSS and guest Mark Lack, Manager of Strategy Analytics and Business Intelligence with industrial products company Mueller Inc. for a look at how to decrease costs and improve your business’ profitability with predictive analytics. You’ll learn how Mueller extends the value of its Big Data environment by applying predictive techniques to accurately forecast sales, prevent fraud and reduce losses from damaged inventory, saving the company significant time and money.

Businesses today certainly do not suffer from a lack of data. Every day, they capture and consume massive amounts of information that they use to make strategic and tactical decisions. Yet organizations often lack two critical capabilities when it comes to making the right decisions for the business: the ability to make accurate predictions about the future, and to then use those predicted insights in conjunction with organizational goals to identify the best possible actions they should take. The combination of predictive analytics and decision optimization provides organizations with the ability to turn insight into action. Predictive analytics offers insights into likely scenarios by analyzing trends, patterns and relationships in data. Decision optimization prescribes best-action recommendations given an organization’s business goals and business dynamics, taking into account any tradeoffs or consequences associated with those actions.

Predictive analytics is powerful. It can help drive significant improvement to an organization’s bottom line. Look for ways to use it to grow revenue, shrink costs and improve margins. Provide a platform that enables your data scientists to work efficiently using tools and algorithms they prefer. Enhance your analyses with internal and external data, structured and unstructured data. Then make the analytics accessible in order to reap the full benefits of these valuable analyses. Stay ahead of the curve in your market with predictive analytics, and give your organization a competitive advantage and an improved bottom line.

With the widespread adoption of predictive analytics, organizations have a number of solutions at their fingertips. From machine learning capabilities to open platform architectures, the resources available to innovate with growing amounts of data are vast. In this TDWI Navigator Report for Predictive Analytics, researcher Fern Halper outlines market opportunities, challenges, forces, status and landscape to help organizations adopt technology for managing and using their data. As highlighted in this report, TDWI shares some key differentiators for SAS, including the breadth and depth of functionality when it comes to advanced analytics that supports multiple personas including executives, IT, data scientists and developers.

Think of the self-service things you use in a day. Gas pumps. ATMs. Online apps for shopping. They’re convenient and easy to use. People choose what they want, when they want – without involving others in their minute-to-minute decisions. What if your organization could treat data discovery and analytics the same way? SAS has combined two of its visual solutions to do just that. SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Visual Statistics share the same web-based interface to provide self-service data exploration and easy-to-use interactive predictive analytics in a collaborative environment. This white paper takes a look at this convergence and outlines how these products can be used together so that everyone, even nontechnical users, can investigate data on their own, create analytical models and uncover new insights that drive competitive differentiation. Your analytics journey just got a lot easier.

This white paper outlines some of the major factors affecting inventory and supply chain management, and covers practices and capabilities that distinguish the most successful approaches to this complex process. You'll learn the factors to consider as you evaluate the maturity of your organization's supply chain and inventory management processes as well as recommendations for incremental improvements that can enable you to cost-effectively upgrade your inventory management system, one step at a time.

Your goal is clear—produce high-quality goods while optimizing resources at every step of production. And in today's uncertain economy, cost-control efforts may never have been more important. Unscheduled downtime because of equipment failure can have a serious impact on your organization's bottom line. Download this white paper from IBM, and learn the basics of predictive maintenance, the benefits it provides manufacturing operations and the underlying technologies that make it possible. Predictive analytics helps you in a number of ways: identify when equipment is likely to fail or need maintenance and take action to maximize up time and reduce future warranty claims costs; optimize allocated labor resources and spare part inventories, helping eliminate undue maintenance, prevent downtime and reduce inventory costs; and determine why certain production runs fail more often than others, identify the cause and analyze whether those runs warrant a recall.

Companies are pressured more than usual to get the most out of their current asset base. Read this Analyst Insight from Aberdeen Group to learn how companies are using analytics to predict asset failure to avoid costly downtime and reduce maintenance cost.

Four technology trends—cloud computing, mobile technology, social collaboration and analytics—are shaping the business and converging on the data center. But few data center strategies are designed with the requisite flexibility, scalability or resiliency to meet the new demands. Read the white paper to learn how a good data center strategy can help you prepare for the rigors and unpredictability of emerging technologies. Find out how IBM’s predictive analytics are helping companies build more accurate, forward-looking data center strategies and how those strategies are leading to more agile, efficient and resilient infrastructures.

Understanding customer behavior can be as inscrutable as a foreign language unless you use analytics to decipher it.

Many organizations and agencies would like to improve their debt collection. They are aware that advanced analytics can help them optimize collections to drive down company debt and collection expenditures. However, they perceive that advanced analytics requires massive infrastructure changes, expensive software licenses, analytics expertise, long lead times and major upfront capital expenses.

SAP HANA is a powerful, in-memory computing platform that streamlines business suite applications, analytics, planning, predictive analysis, and sentiment analysis on a single platform, so businesses can operate in real time. The design approach for enterprise-level solutions involving SAP HANA, and the best practices surrounding them, isn’t intrinsically different from the approach to any other enterprise-level solution for technology implementations. This paper is written to address those elements of good solution design and apply them to the SAP landscape, with particular focus on the SAP HANA element.

IT organizations are increasingly being called upon to cost-effectively deliver reliable support for the entire catalog of business services, or risk outsourcing to a managed service provider.

Optimizing cooling is one of the first areas data center managers should look to in order to reduce costs and increase efficiency.

Watch this video to see how Denmark’s leading retailer, Coop Danmark, is using predictive analytics and real-time data access to understand customer demand and make more profitable merchandising decisions.

Business analytics can empower your business managers to make more fact-based, data-driven decisions that improve operating results. Learn more in a report from Nucleus Research.

IBM’s Social Media Analytics solution helps your company take advantage of everything social media has to offer in terms of getting closer to your customers, combining social media analysis and reporting with IBM SPSS predictive analytics technology.

Four technology trends—cloud computing, mobile technology, social collaboration and analytics—are shaping the business and converging on the data center. But few data center strategies are designed with the requisite flexibility, scalability or resiliency to meet the new demands. Read the white paper to learn how a good data center strategy can help you prepare for the rigors and unpredictability of emerging technologies. Find out how IBM’s predictive analytics are helping companies build more accurate, forward-looking data center strategies and how those strategies are leading to more agile, efficient and resilient infrastructures.

In this webcast, you’ll learn how IBM® SmartCloud® Analytics—Predictive Insights helps you prevent application degradation and service outages.

Four technology trends—cloud computing, mobile technology, social collaboration and analytics—are shaping the business and converging on the data center. But few data center strategies are designed with the requisite flexibility, scalability or resiliency to meet the new demands. Read the white paper to learn how a good data center strategy can help you prepare for the rigors and unpredictability of emerging technologies. Find out how IBM’s predictive analytics are helping companies build more accurate, forward-looking data center strategies and how those strategies are leading to more agile, efficient and resilient infrastructures.

This paper explains the advantages of a business intelligence solution that includes predictive analytics.

This presentation will demonstrate that it is possible to turn the promise of Big Data into business value by applying predictive analytics to Big Data sources such as Hadoop, Cloudera, and BigInsights.

Making sound security decisions in today’s environment is of paramount importance. This infographic highlights the connection between economic vitality and security and how both can be achieved.

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