Top 5 Tips for a Successful Predictive Analytics Project
Predictive analytics holds the promise of making your organization smarter, more nimble, more competitive, and ultimately, more profitable. But in between deciding predictive analytics can help your organization achieve any one (or several) of these objectives, and realizing these results, there are…
April 12, 2017
How to Avoid Five Potential Pitfalls of Analytics Projects
The promises of analytics are many: business insights, competitive advantage, increased profits, and more. In some cases it may even seem like the opportunities delivered by analytics are nearly endless. So how could one possibly fail with analytics? Sadly, as Meta S.…
March 14, 2017
Understanding Gartner’s Magic Quadrants for Analytics: An Expert’s Take, Part 3
In two recent blog posts (Gartner Magic Quadrants, Part 1 and Part 2), we provided some clarity around the various Magic Quadrants issued by Gartner in the analytics and business intelligence market. In this post we want to go a little deeper…
October 6, 2016
What the Heck is Cognitive Computing?
I’m often asked to define cognitive computing. Honestly, it’s not always easy to define. So first, let’s step back and take a look at the overall analytics landscape. Within analytics, you have descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics. Descriptive analytics summarizes what happened.…
September 26, 2016
Life Lessons Learned as an Intern at Revelwood
This is a guest blog post by Revelwood intern, Zachary Vinik. When I told friends and family that I was interning at an established business they all made jokes. “You are just going to organize papers and deliver coffee to everyone.” My…
August 16, 2016
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
Creating IBM Planning Analytics Workspace Content (Part 2)
This blog is intended to continue and build upon the previous blog How to Create IBM Planning Analytics Workspace Content. In this blog, I will provide an overview on building the remaining content (second and third row of visualizations) in the Dashboard…
August 1, 2016
Meet Alex Needham: Ridding the World of Inefficient Planning and Reporting
I started my career in the automotive industry. I started off as an intern and worked my way up to FP&A coordinator / assistant manager over five years. During this time, I realized how much time our Financial team wasted on horrifically…
June 1, 2016
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
Cash Flow Modeling with IBM TM1
As a senior consultant with Revelwood for nearly seven years, I’ve had the opportunity to design and develop a large number of TM1 models for various aspects of budgeting, planning and forecasting. Some client engagements are very straightforward – simply transition the…
March 15, 2016
Why Revelwood’s Professional Services Group is Different
This is a guest blog post by Revelwood's Lee Lazarow. Designing and developing successful business analytics applications requires a unique blend of skills; a team must understand both the nuances of the technology and the idiosyncrasies of business. We’ve built – and…