Decision Tree for Enterprise Information Management (EIM)

In continuation to Big Data Solutions Decision Tree, it makes sense to provide additional details on Enterprise Information Management (EIM). In this article we will define EIM as solutions making possible optimal use of information within organizations to support decision-making processes or day-to-day operations that require the availability of knowledge. For this purpose, we will look into following aspects of EIM: … Continue reading Decision Tree for Enterprise Information Management (EIM)

Cortana Intelligence Suite: Big Data and Advanced Analytics

In this post we will discuss reference architecture for Big Data and Advanced Analytics using Cortana Intelligence Suite. The architecture can be relevant for organizations looking to fully manage big data and advanced analytics to transform all enterprise information into intelligent action. This will allow to take action ahead of your competitors by going beyond … Continue reading Cortana Intelligence Suite: Big Data and Advanced Analytics

Machine Learning Solutions Decision Tree

New version is available: Artificial Intelligence Decision Tree Machine learning is a technique of data science that helps computers learn from existing data in order to forecast future behaviors, outcomes, and trends. Currently there are lot of products which can be used for this on-premises or in the cloud, based on single node or multiple nodes, … Continue reading Machine Learning Solutions Decision Tree

Big Data Solutions Decision Tree

Last update: May 30, 2017 New version: Big Data Decision Tree v4 (Jan 14th, 2019). Currently there are lot of existing solutions for Big Data storage and analysis. In this article, I will describe a generic decision tree to choose the right solution to achieve your goals. Disclaimer. Process of solution selection for Big Data projects is … Continue reading Big Data Solutions Decision Tree

Vehicle Health & Driving Pattern Analysis using Cortana Analytics with Power BI

Last changes: January 13, 2016 In the following scenario of advanced analytics we will show how car dealers, insurances and automobile manufacturers can use Cortana Analytics including Power BI to gain real-time and predictive insights on vehicle health and driving pattern behavior. The solution can be applied to following business use cases: Usage-based insurance Vehicle … Continue reading Vehicle Health & Driving Pattern Analysis using Cortana Analytics with Power BI

Cortana Intelligence Suite

Cortana Intelligence Suite is a fully managed big data and advanced analytics suite that enables organizations to transform data into intelligent action. Cortana Intelligence Suite includes following products and capabilities (also see the figure below): Preconfigured business scenarios: recommendations, forecasting, customer churn, etc. Personal digital assistant: Cortana Recognition of human interactions and intent: face, vision, … Continue reading Cortana Intelligence Suite

Analysis of Big Data for Financial Services Institutions

In this blog post, we will look at analysis of stock prices and dividends by industry. This task is important to all participants of Stock Market including individual retail investors, institutional investors such as mutual funds, banks, insurance companies and hedge funds, and publicly traded corporations trading in their own shares. In this demo, team … Continue reading Analysis of Big Data for Financial Services Institutions

Aggregating Big Data with HDInsight (Hadoop) on Azure

When we a talking about Big Data we may mean huge amounts of data (high Volume), data in any format (high Variety), and streaming data (appearing with high Velocity). Microsoft provides solutions for all of these “3V” tasks under unified monitoring, management and security, as well as unified data movement technologies. These workloads are supported correspondingly by … Continue reading Aggregating Big Data with HDInsight (Hadoop) on Azure

Microsoft Customer Analytics Solution for Banking

Understanding customers is the foundation to a sustainable competitive advantage in banking. Such problems as customer churn are very difficult to mitigate and much better just to prevent these events using analysis of customer behavior and preferences. To make it possible it is necessary to extract more value from internal and external data sources, and … Continue reading Microsoft Customer Analytics Solution for Banking

Microsoft Business Intelligence Solutions Builder

In the case your organization need to plan for BI deployment or upgrade, you may use the BI Solutions Builder tool at http://www.bisolutionbuilder.com. This tool allows you to understand which products to need in attrition to existing products in the organization to get a desired BI solution. To use this service you need to enter … Continue reading Microsoft Business Intelligence Solutions Builder