August 10th, 2012 | Posted by Jeff RiceEnterprise consultants are uniquely positioned to maximize the benefits derived from advanced analytics, provided they act swiftly. The nature of new, complex, advanced analytics requirements places consulting firms at an advantage over traditional software companies. Consulting firms, understanding their advantaged position, are rapidly adopting predictive and prescriptive analytics, due to the following: Advanced analytics are [...]
Read More » June 11th, 2012 | Posted by Jeff RiceInternational Data Corporation (IDC) recently released the report titled “Innovative Business Analytics Companies Under $100M to Watch.” The report features vendors that are innovating around three key trends in the business analytics market. These trends are: Collaborative Decision Management, Cloud-based Analytics, and Mobile Analytics. “New technologies are eliminating boundaries between content and data to enable pervasive [...]
Read More » August 10th, 2011 | Posted by Jeff RiceIT managers and staff are under fire, spending most everyday keeping existing systems up and running, and more often than not, they are understaffed, lacking in processes, and viewed too frequently as the bad guys. I’ve been known to refer to them as the “Department of No”, because of the numerous times I’ve heard, “Not [...]
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April 20th, 2011 | Posted by Carlos CenturionThis post is the third in a series providing guiding principles for S&OP managers and their partners to help them better understand which best practices are possible through what-if analyses. In the first post of the series, Strengthening the S&OP Process with What-if Analyses – Demand Shaping, I discussed that the key underlying requirement for [...]
Read More » March 22nd, 2011 | Posted by Carlos CenturionThis post is the second in a series intended to provide guiding principles for S&OP managers and their partners to help them better understand which best practices are possible through what-if analyses. As stated earlier in the first post of the series, Strengthening the S&OP Process with What-if Analyses – Demand Shaping, the key underlying [...]
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March 16th, 2011 | Posted by Renat StewartCo-authorship: Renat Stewart and Nathan Goldstein As with any emerging business technology, early adopters of Trade Promotion Optimization (TPO) solutions are under significant pressure to validate their decision and to prove the return on their technology investments in a very short period of time. In an effort to show value quickly, most adopting firms are [...]
Read More » March 9th, 2011 | Posted by Jeff RiceA Meaningful IT Planning Solution River Logic is proposing an IT Planning solution far different than that proposed by another vendor in the analytics space (See IBM’s New Data Center Analytics). First and foremost, our solution will focus on Integrated Business Planning, which centers on the overall performance of an enterprise. Consider the automobile manufacturer [...]
Read More » November 4th, 2010 | Posted by Jeff RiceManaging data across an enterprise is complicated and often a thankless exercise. Eventually, IT and operational managers realize that a “librarian” or data management system needs to be brought to bear on extensive information. Enter Master Data Management (MDM) systems which have workflows and utilities and provide procedures to keep data under control. The idea [...]
Read More » August 10th, 2010 | Posted by Jeff RiceWe work with large companies and dealing with them can often be problematic, as they have intrinsic business and technology issues. We may convince managers of our value proposition only to later run into ‘not on my network’ from the CIO. Other times, an organization has a budget for a solution but not enough funds [...]
Read More » July 29th, 2010 | Posted by Jeff RiceWhen I was a kid, I spent a lot of time sailing boats offshore. In those days, we used to navigate with a sextant. Every night my dad and I would take star sights to determine our location, and after we figured out our new location, we would adjust our course to make port. We [...]
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