Predixion Insight, the company’s core product, is focused on the key stumbling block for predictive analytics – the supply of people who can build models. Predixion like to talk about turning Business Intelligence into Predictive Intelligence – bringing predictive analytics into a BI world. They see a need for new tools that allow people who can use BI tools or Excel to build predictive analytic models. You also need workflows that are more flexible and adaptable rather than focused on a formal scientific process. Finally you need a set of shared concepts across predictive analytics and BI. To expand the supply of people who can built predictive analytic models you need to make it easier to build models, easier to collaborate around them and easier to share and deploy them.
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