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 | 5th March '10
I just got back from the SAS
analyst event that was held in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. It
was a great meeting. Here are some of the themes I heard over the
few days I was there:
SAS is a unique place to work.
Consider the following:...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 5th January '10
With 2010 now upon us, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about five advanced analytics technology trends that will take flight this year. Some of these are up in the clouds, some down to earth.Text Analytics: Analyzing unstructured text will...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 12th December '09
I attended Cloud Camp Boston yesterday. It was a great meeting with some good discussions. Several hundred people attended. What struck me about the general session (when all attendees were present) was that there was a lot of interest around data...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 10th December '09
There has been a lot of excitement in the market recently around business analytics in general and specifically around predictive analytics. The promise of moving away from the typical rear view mirror approach to a predictive, anticipatory approach...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 1st December '09
Ive been writing about text analytics for a number of years, now. Many of my blogs have included survey findings and vendor offerings in the space. I've also provided a number of use cases for text analytics; many of which have revolved around voice...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 7th November '09
IBM made a number of announcements recently at IOD regarding new products/offerings to help companies analyze content. One was Cognos Content Analytics, which enables organizations to analyze unstructured data alongside structured data. It also...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 4th November '09
Last Friday, SAS announced that it was partnering with Teradata and Elder Research Inc. (a data mining consultancy) to open a Business Analytics Innovation Centre. According to the press release,
Recognising the growing need and...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 29th October '09
I just got back from the IBM Information on Demand (IOD) conference in Las Vegas. A key message was that the future is in analytics and predictive analytics at that. IBM has already invested $12B ($8B acquisitions, $4B organic growth) in...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 8th October '09
IBM has dominated a good deal of the news in the business analytics world, recently. On Friday, it completed the purchase of SPSS and solidified its position in predictive analytics. This is certainly the biggest leg of a recent three-prong...
Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 30th September '09
I had an interesting chat with Roman Stanek, CEO of Good Data last week about the debate over data security and reliability in the cloud. For those of you who are not familiar with Good Data, it provides a collaborative business analytics platform...
Dana Gardner Principal Analyst Interarbor Solutions
