The big wide world of data and information management and analysis.
Dr. Fern Halper is a partner at Hurwitz & Associates, a consulting, research and analyst firm that focuses on the customer benefits derived when advanced and emerging software technologies are used to solve business problems. Fern has over twenty years of experience in data analysis, business analysis, and strategy development. Fern served as Senior Vice President for enterprise applications and services for Hurwitz Group and has held key positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies. Fern spent eight years at Bell Laboratories leading the development of innovative approaches and systems to analyze marketing and operational data. Fern has published numerous articles on data mining and information technology and she is an adjunct professor at Bentley College, where she teaches courses in Information Systems and Business. Fern received her BA from Colgate University and her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University.
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 9th July '08
Over the past several weeks, I've been briefed by a number of text analytics vendors and companies in partnership with text analytics vendors about syndicated services that make use of text analytics. Of course, syndicated services such as brand...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 21st June '08
I add my thoughts to others who have blogged on the Summit. See the Seth Grimes posting, for all of the other comments.
I too agree that it was great to see a large number of end users at the Summit, this year. I was especially...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 13th June '08
I recently had the chance to get an update on what SPSS is up to in text analytics. It was an interesting conversation for several reasons:
First, it highlighted an important point about text analytics - which we know but is worth...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 13th June '08
Several weeks ago, Hurwitz & Associates deployed a short survey entitled, Four questions about innovations in analysis. Well, the results are in and they are quite interesting!
The Survey
First, a few words about the survey itself and...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 23rd May '08
As many of you know, I have been spending a great deal of time researching the area of innovations in BI. Yesterday, I posted a short four question survey regarding how companies might be using some of the analysis technologies that are out in the...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 16th May '08
Several months ago, I wrote a piece about Voice of the Customer (VoC) and how text analytics companies are getting good traction from this application. I recently got an update from Sid Banerjee, CEO of Clarabridge, that further supports this...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 8th May '08
When I first started to research the text analytics industry about three years ago, people didn't understand why I was so interested in this nascent marketplace. I had always anticipated how important it would be. I remember working at Bell...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 26th April '08
I recently had an interesting conversation about classification and search with James Zubok, CFO of Brainware, Inc. Brainware is a Virginia based company that was once part of SER Systems AG, a former German ECM company. Brainware provides...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 21st March '08
Monday, SAS announced that it had purchased Teragram, a privately held natural language processing (NLP) company, for an undisclosed sum. Teragram is now a SAS company meaning that the Teragram brand will be maintained. Its solutions and OEM...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 18th March '08
Data makes the world go 'round and a lot of this critical data resides in databases. This is why it is important to monitor database activity in order to prevent attacks and invasions.
I recently had an interesting discussion with Rani...
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