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BotchagalupeMarks for August 2nd – 18:25
By John | August 3, 2009
These are my links for August 2nd from 18:25 to 20:18:
- SPSS Is Not the Story; IBM’s Vision for Analytics Is | The Intelligent Enterprise Blog – IBM has been collecting BI and analytics pieces for a few years now, beginning way back in pre-history with the acquisition of Ascential. This was eclipsed when they acquired Cognos ($5B), the largest BI vendor at the time. There have been quite a few other smaller ones, such as AlphaBlox, Applix, Exeros and others. And let's not forget ILOG a year ago. You can't put predictive analytics into motion without a Business Rules Management System to drive the process. If anyone thinks this acquisition of SPSS marks IBM's serious entry into analytics, they've been sleeping.
- The psychology of overconfidence : The New Yorker – The psychologist Ellen Langer once had subjects engage in a betting game against either a self-assured, well-dressed opponent or a shy and badly dressed opponent (in Langer’s delightful phrasing, the “dapper” or the “schnook” condition), and she found that her subjects bet far more aggressively when they played against the schnook. They looked at their awkward opponent and thought, I’m better than he is. Yet the game was pure chance: all the players did was draw cards at random from a deck, and see who had the high hand. This is called the “illusion of control”: confidence spills over from areas where it may be warranted (“I’m savvier than that schnook”) to areas where it isn’t warranted at all (“and that means I’m going to draw higher cards”).
- Cloud Computing Security Risks – Are They Real? – Cloud Talk – Security is the cloud computing issue that won't go away…nor should it. For all the paradigm shifting promise of cloud computing, security is still a concern for many IT managers.
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