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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
How will Brexit Impact your Financial Planning & Analysis
It’s been several weeks since the historic and disruptive Brexit vote, where the UK voted yes to a referendum deciding to leave the European Union. Stock markets around the world immediately had a knee-jerk reaction, and there has been speculation that banks—particularly…
August 23, 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’s Cloud Strategy and How Revelwood Can Help
IBM is investing heavily in its analytics solutions, which means lots of things are changing for the better. At Revelwood, we see it as our job to help our clients interpret these changes to better understand how they might affect your organization…
July 14, 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
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…
February 11, 2016
The Power of Decisions: Analytical Decision Management
A great way to explain the analytics maturity and value curve is to use the idea of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics. Analytics consultants and thought leaders love to frame the field in these terms, if for no other reason than to…
December 7, 2015
Top 5 Questions Answered from IBM Customers on Predictive Analytics
I recently presented the Predictive Customer Intelligence solution from IBM to a group of executives at the Memorial Golf Tournament in Dublin, Ohio. The audience spanned the retail, insurance and banking industries and all had one common challenge: how can we "do…
June 22, 2015
A Strange Journey from Hospitality to TM1 Consulting
Just about a year ago I joined Revelwood as an associate consultant working on client implementations using IBM Cognos TM1 and IBM Cognos ICM. It was a great move for so many reasons, but also a surprising one in the context of…