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Orlando Magic grows fan base with analytics

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Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

Check out a few ways Orlando Magic uses analytics to tailor experiences for each fan through in this article and video interview.

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A wonderland of text analytics

By Anna Brown, Editor | Published: April 19, 2012
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Through studying unstructured data, you can learn about customer and buying behaviors as well as internal employee behaviors through enterprise applications, explains Tom Reamy, founder of KAPS Group, in this video interview.

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Big data, text and elephants from John Elder

By Anna Brown, Editor | Published: April 17, 2012
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“It’s kind of like if you’re used to taking care of rabbits and now you’re in charge of elephants,” explains John Elder, Founder, Elder Research, when talking about big data in this interview.

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What is big data?

By Anna Brown, Editor | Published: April 10, 2012
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“I usually define big data as lots of little data,” says Dean Abbott, President of Abbott Analytics Inc. He explains big data in more detail and gives organizations advice on what they should know when dealing with it in this video interview.

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Public sector agencies, how can YOU use high-performance analytics?

By Anna Brown, Editor | Published: March 27, 2012
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Law enforcement organizations can better anticipate and prevent criminal activity by finding insights in huge amounts of data – including structured and unstructured (social media, text, etc.). This excerpt gives more details.

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Are customer calls dropping left and right? High-performance analytics can help.

By Anna Brown, Editor | Published: March 20, 2012
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Gone are the days of traditional capacity planning for network operators. They can now provide optimal performance by using high-performance analytics to analyze shifts in network demands in near real time.

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Ratemaking made faster

By Anna Brown, Editor | Published: March 13, 2012
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Insurers increasingly rely on high-performance analytics to predict future behavior and determine product pricing, as it processes the growing volumes of data faster than traditional approaches. Read more in this article.

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There are analytic superheroes among us

By Anna Brown, Editor | Published: March 7, 2012
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“There have always been analytic superheroes out here who are helping companies take data and make something neat and interesting happen to improve business decisions,” says Bill Franks, Chief Analytics Officer at Teradata. Watch the video interview for more.

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Tackling big data with agile analytics

By Anna Brown, Editor | Published: March 7, 2012
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“I saw really quickly that due to all the information within the company, there would be no future unless we leveraged the high-performance of both holding that data as well as doing the analytics on it,” says Shawn Hushman, Vice President of Enterprise Analytics, Kelley Blue Book. Hear more in the interview.

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Ahhh, now that’s refreshing

By Anna Brown, Editor | Published: March 7, 2012
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Real-time, instant processing of information is a critical component of high-performance analytics to make sense of big data. Another important aspect is keeping your models fresh. Read an example of how Yahoo! used this approach to display relevant ads to a targeted set of visitors.

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You don’t have my size in stock? I’m leaving.

By Anna Brown, Editor | Published: March 7, 2012
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Inventory allocation decisions are all too critical for retailers and manufacturers because making the wrong ones can absolutely impair customer satisfaction. These organizations can get a handle on those decisions through high-performance analytics that will factor in point-of-sale (POS) data – in addition to historical information.

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