FineReport

MARCH 29, 2023

FineReport is a very mature reporting tool launched by Fanruan Software in 2006. Once you move beyond basic development, it may be difficult to communicate and consult on issues related to development skills, performance optimization, or troubleshooting. Users can quickly design reports using a design interface similar to Excel.

Reporting 52

Reporting Visualization Dashboards Enterprise 52

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 12, 2015

Digital Analytics Ecosystem: Optimal Execution: Three Phases. Digital Analytics Ecosystem: Optimal Execution: Timing Expectations. From the person, me, who created the 10/90 rule all the way back in May 2006 (#omg), it should not be surprising that the importance of the tool is a bit smaller than that of the Big Brains.

Analytics 150

Analytics Slice and Dice KPI Metrics 150

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 17, 2017

For us, demand for forecasts emerged from a determination to better understand business growth and health, more efficiently conduct day-to-day operations, and optimize longer-term resource planning and allocation decisions. We forecast this time series from the middle of 2006 through the end of the data, for a 30-month forecast horizon.

Forecasting 83

Forecasting Modeling Statistics Uncertainty 83

Timo Elliott

JANUARY 10, 2022

He also cited the Costco example of using analytics and machine learning to create algorithms to optimize bread production, again using cameras. Timo Elliott: Well, I’m not really qualified to talk about that because I’ve been the same company now for 30 years! I thought that was a lovely win-win opportunity using technology.

Data Processing 121

Data Processing Manufacturing Machine Learning Technology 121

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

And no that is not Visits or Total Visitors in the denominator, for my perspective on why that is sub-optimal click here and read the part about Why use Unique Visitors.]. Stepping back for a moment here is the definition of conversion rate that is recommended: Conversion Rate = Outcomes / Unique Visitors. For exhaustive details click here.

Measurement 99

Measurement Analytics Optimization Marketing 99

IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 12, 2023

It was launched in 2006 as the first AWS service and manages data as objects instead of a file hierarchy or blocks within sectors and tracks. As AWS S3 usage grows, so does the cost; managing AWS S3 pricing can be complex and frustrating, especially when you’re trying to optimize your business.

Management 52

Management Optimization Data-driven Software 52

Occam's Razor

MARCH 12, 2012

The current flawed data org structure, its challenges, and the new optimal org structure to truly bring big action to big data. " That is the title of my post from June 2006. I'd structured my keynote into three big pieces: 00:00 – 01:15 Intro. My new favorite data quote by Zack Matere, a Kenyan farmer.

Big Data 127

Big Data Data-driven Unstructured Data Marketing 127

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 12, 2022

Formed from the merger of Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific in 2006, Thermo Fisher Scientific is one of the world’s largest suppliers of scientific instruments, reagents, and services, with more than 130,000 employees worldwide. Since 2006, it has grown with additional mergers and acquisitions, including Life Technologies Corp.

IT 105

IT Data Lake Sales Interactive 105

Domino Data Lab

JULY 22, 2019

The problems down in the mature bucket, those are optimizations, they aren’t showstoppers. Then in 2006, they told me to go look at a website and sign up for a thing. The end of 2006, we were having trouble managing some of our NLP workflows that we were doing. Machine learning is a subset of mathematical optimization.

Data Science 109

Data Science Machine Learning Data Governance Modeling 109

AWS Big Data

JUNE 30, 2023

Position 2 was established in 2006 in Silicon Valley and has a clientele spanning American Express, Lenovo, Fujitsu, and Thales. After all that, we were still missing out on proactive analysis that identifies trends and uncovers optimization opportunities. We work with clients ranging from VC-funded startups to Fortune 500 firms.

Marketing 52

Marketing Dashboards Advertising ROI 52

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 8, 2022

It’s one of those CIO-plus roles that people talk about,” says Slater, who has served as CIO since 2006. To optimize business on its re-opening, Wolverine IT built supply chain data models using Microsoft Power BI to prioritize which brands it should manufacture first once factories resumed operation.

Data Lake 113

Data Lake Manufacturing Digital Transformation Machine Learning 113

IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The platform has been used to modernize and unify the information technology (IT) ecosystem of major financial firms, simplify human capital management (HCM) across brands’ subsidiaries, and optimize reporting processes in complex healthcare settings.

Testing 76

Testing Consulting Digital Transformation Cost-Benefit 76

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Internet companies like Amazon led the charge with the introduction of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2002, which offered businesses cloud-based storage and computing services, and the launch of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in 2006, which allowed users to rent virtual computers to run their own applications.

Cost-Benefit 104

Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation Software Modeling 104

O'Reilly on Data

JULY 25, 2023

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers.

Consulting 246

Consulting Interactive Software IT 246

Sisense

APRIL 9, 2019

Originally created in 2006, it’s one of the most popular open source BI tools. Choose synchronous or asynchronous replication when updates come around, even optimize highly-available asynchronous operations. That’s something Hadoop excels at. The power to customize Cassandra is in your hands.

Analytics 75

Analytics Software IoT Big Data 75

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Since its launch in 2006, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) has experienced major growth, supporting multiple use cases such as hosting websites, creating data lakes, serving as object storage for consumer applications, storing logs, and archiving data.

Reporting 85

Reporting Data Lake Management Optimization 85

Andrew White

JANUARY 7, 2022

They all want fast ping and for efficiency the actual servers are optimized for that geo-region. Last word: I read “ Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games ” (2006) by Edward Castronova some time ago. For Warcraft there were (and are) many instances. Well worth the read.

Marketing 109

Marketing Forecasting Optimization IT 109

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Google Analytics' native funnels are pretty sub optimal, ignore that entire feature.) What key performance indicators are optimal for you? Here's how that picture might look like (from a post I wrote in July 2006!)… And optimizing for that will ensure you win HUGE. Try, test, measure, be rich. Where is it?

Metrics 151

Metrics Key Performance Indicator Measurement Optimization 151

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

Identify where your company is currently, what the next optimal step is in the ladder and give it all your attention in terms of data analysis or analytics code fixes. They have still not embraced the strategy for optimizing for marketing portfolios and still obsess about optimizing silos (they learned this from their TV, Print etc.

Marketing Analytics 131

Marketing Analytics Marketing Analytics Measurement 131

Domino Data Lab

JULY 1, 2021

from keras import optimizers from keras.models import Model from keras.models import Input from keras_contrib.layers import CRF from keras_contrib import losses from keras_contrib import metrics. Kingma and Jimmy Ba, Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization, 3rd International Conference for Learning Representations, San Diego, 2015, [link].

Modeling 111

Modeling Statistics Testing Metrics 111

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 11, 2017

If both variances are positive then the optimal estimator of $y_{t+1}$ winds up being "exponential smoothing," where past data are forgotten at an exponential rate determined by the ratio of the two variances. Also notice that while the state in this model is Markov (i.e. Chapman & Hall, 3rd edn. Gramacy, R. and Polson, N. Holmes, C.

Forecasting 64

Forecasting Statistics Modeling Software 64

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

And since 14th of May 2006 , this has been my safe harbor, my warm place, and my escape when work was all green and orange.). Now finding the optimal solution is simpler. With the web, there are so many avenues to express your passion. Find an outlet to build your own passion platform. This blog started exactly as that for me.

Finance 166

Finance Marketing Strategy IT 166

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 4, 2016

The specific metric I've been mad about since day one of this blog ( May 14th, 2006! ) While this is a great lesson in the power of defining metrics optimally, why bring this up, one more time, today? is Conversion Rate. It is measured as Orders/Visits. [Or, Or, its variation Outcomes/Sessions].

Metrics 88

Metrics Analytics Cost-Benefit Key Performance Indicator 88

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

See #1 in this post from 2006: Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Metrics, Tips & Best Practices. Alex Cohen: How to optimize with sparse data! Oh, and don't be one of the jackhammers who snoops your customer's browser history and does other sub-optimal stuff. or non-U.S.),

Analytics 94

Analytics Measurement Metrics Predictive Analytics 94

Occam's Razor

MARCH 22, 2011

Our conversion rate calculation, Orders/Visits (bad version) or Orders/Visitors (better version), reflects that, sub optimal, mental model. In a post written in Nov 2006, I presented a similar thought (though in a different context than Thomas). Every single person who visits www.etsy.com is there to buy. 3700/1000000)*100].

Measurement 87

Measurement Metrics Advertising Marketing 87

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

MARCH 31, 2016

They provide an interpretable decomposition of variance, and in prediction problems they can supply predictive posterior distributions that can be used in stochastic optimization when uncertainty estimates are a critical component (e.g. Cambridge University Press, (2006). [2] bandit problems). 2] Edward Snelson and Zoubin Ghahramani.

Modeling 40

Modeling Statistics Advertising Testing 40

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2022

AI and machine learning are helping us optimize that process and reduce the time it takes. 1] Clinical Development Success Rates, 2006-2015. “Clinical trials currently account for 60% of the cost and 70% of the time it takes to bring a potential new drug to market [1] ,” said Kaur. “AI It’s an exciting time to be at AstraZeneca!” .

Machine Learning 145

Machine Learning Data-driven Testing Data Science 145

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

My first blog post on the topic of CIA was on 14th Aug 2006! Not every website is organized optimally for us to benefit from this report, but if it is, then you'll get something like this for Dell.com. Regular readers of the blog know of my deep love for competitive intelligence analysis. The Sub-domains report.

Metrics 155

Metrics Reporting IT Advertising 155