Tag: data mining

Stuart Rose 1
Putting predictive analytics to work.

Insurance relies on the ability to predict future claims or loss exposure based on historical information and experience. However, insurers face an uncertain future due to spiraling operational costs, escalating regulatory pressures, increasing competition and greater customer expectations. More than ever, insurance companies need to optimize their business processes. But

Data Management
Alyssa Farrell 0
A must-read for petroleum professionals

Oil companies are being forced to explore in geologically complex and remote areas to exploit more unconventional hydrocarbon deposits.  New engineering technology has pushed the envelope of previous upstream experience.  No guidebook existed on how computing methodologies can contribute to E&P performance at reduced risk.  Until now. A new book

Alli Soule 1
Forecasting with 15,000 variables and 7,000 models

How does a $55 billion company get a sense of its demand when it operates in virtually every market – from paint to electronics – on a global scale? That’s the question Timothy D. Rey answered during a presentation on how his company, Dow Chemical, used a data mining approach

Marnie Davey 2
Three ways SingTel is serving a segment of one

At the recent SAS Forum Singapore (where we also heard from DBS Bank and their analytical transformation journey), Grace Tang, the Director, Customer Experience Assurance at SingTel talked in depth about the telco’s need to do things differently in the consumer operations space. Operating in a complex environment involving smartphones,