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Analytics is no longer an obscure "black art" perpetrated by pointy-headed rocket scientists for whom the term "applications developer" is totally inadequate. It is now a big part of everyday production environments and is getting bigger and more important. The number of factors that need careful analysis when running a major …

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  1. James Taylor

    Embedding analytics in operational systems takes different technology

    Interesting article. I blog about this a lot over on http://www.edmblog.com as using analytic techniques to drive operational behavior is quite different from the kind of slice and dice analytics so prevalent in BI. Fair Isaac has been at this even longer - 50 years - and the need to bring analytic techiques to bear, often in conjunction with business rules, in operational systems has been a big part of that. Generating models and turning the results into something executable is key.

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