Dr Fern Halper on IT-Analysis.com

Improving Sentiment Analysis - Lexalytics merges with Infonic

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:20:50 +0100

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Jeff Caitlin, CEO of Lexalytics Ltd. about the Lexalytics/Infonic merger. Although the merger occurred several months ago, it was actually good timing,... [Read More...]

MarketSight 7.0 - Survey Analysis Made Simple

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:53:35 +0100

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Michael DeNitto and Mark Budreski from MarketSight about enhancements to the MarketSight platform and future plans.� MarketSight is a web-based survey... [Read More...]

Syndicating Text Analytics

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:38:59 +0100

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... [Read More...]

My two cents on the 2008 Text Analytics Summit

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:51:11 +0100

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... [Read More...]

Text Analytics and the Predictive Enterprise

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:42:52 +0100

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... [Read More...]

Four Questions about Innovations in Analysis

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:29:03 +0100

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! [Read More...]

Four questions about BI Innovation

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:03:20 +0100

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... [Read More...]

Customer Experience Intelligence and Text Analytics

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:50:41 +0100

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,... [Read More...]

What's Next For Text Analytics?

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:50:21 +0100

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... [Read More...]

A different way to search?

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:34:49 +0100

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... [Read More...]

SAS Purchases Teragram

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:55:03 +0100

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... [Read More...]

Database Activity Monitoring

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:21:24 +0100

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. [Read More...]

Hear My Voice!

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:36:55 +0100

I've been writing a lot about text analytics because I think it is a critical technology for deriving insight from unstructured data. Late last summer, Hurwitz & Associates published a... [Read More...]

Text Analytics Meets Enterprise Content Management

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:59:37 +0100

Late last summer, Hurwitz & Associates published a report on Text Analytics. As part of the report we surveyed companies that had deployed the technology, were planning to deploy the technology,... [Read More...]

Best Practices on the road to enterprise-wide MDM

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:21:13 +0100

I recently had an interesting discussion with Ravi Shankar, Director of Product Marketing at Siperian, about emerging best practices for enterprise-wide MDM initiatives. Siperian provides MDM hubs... [Read More...]

Decisions and consequences

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:24:03 +0100

Not everything is easy. I analyzed data for decision-making for many years using advanced techniques such as predictive modeling, machine learning and even influence diagrams. With the rush to... [Read More...]

Seven guiding principles for analyzing data

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:40:40 +0100

I was talking to an old friend the other day who is involved in using the results of research to help grow a business. He told me some interesting stories that made me revisit some basic tenets of... [Read More...]

Innovations in Data Visualization - Animation and more

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:03:10 +0100

Robin Bloor and I were briefed by SAS about some of its visualization technologies last week as part of the research we're undertaking in innovations in BI. [Read More...]

Is this the death of the Data Cube? (continued)

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:48:13 +0100

I've never been a fan of the data cube. In fact, I've always disliked it because it seems so constraining. I don't want to be chained to a certain thought process when I'm... [Read More...]

MDM without boiling the ocean

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:05:57 +0100

I was thinking about Master Data Management (MDM) last night. There's been a lot of hype over the past few years about MDM. At its simplest level, MDM is about handling common data, such as... [Read More...]

What business users can do about data quality

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Unfortunately, more often than not, data quality is viewed as simply an infrastructure issue. Cognos and Informatica hope to change this perception. [Read More...]

Innovations in Data Visualization - Visual analytics

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:54:12 +0100

A wise man once told me, Look at the data. What are the data telling you? That was my dissertation advisor, some twenty years ago, before the term data visualization was even coined.... [Read More...]

What's a semantic model and why should we care?

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:12:59 +0100

When most people think analytical application they think classic BI or predictive modeling. That's no longer accurate. The very nature of analytical... [Read More...]

Can Text Analytics and Speech Analytics Have a Happy Marriage?

Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:39:31 +0100

Sid Banerjee, CEO of Clarabridge, told me about Clarabridge's recently announced partnership with CallMiner. It is a marriage of text analytics with speech analytics, and hence it should... [Read More...]