Predixion Software Strengthens Management Team with Appointment of Costa Harbilas as SVP of Sales and Terri Avnaim as VP of Marketing.

Costa Harbilas joined the company as senior vice president of global sales and will lead the direct, channel and technical sales teams around the globe. Terri Avnaim serves as Predixion’s new vice president of marketing. In her new role, she will drive the company’s brand strategy, product marketing, demand generation and corporate communications efforts.

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Predixion Software is pleased to power Accenture’s New Predictive Health Intelligence Solution with Predixion Insight™, our predictive analytics platform to Help Life Sciences Companies Improve Patient and Economic Outcomes

New analytics-enabled solutions help life sciences companies build evidence-driven business models to meet HIPAA regulations

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Predixion Software Predictive Analytics Solutions Now Available for Deployment on Windows Azure

Predixion’s support of the Windows Azure cloud platform enables customers to meet HIPAA regulations

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Predixion Software and Carolinas HealthCare System Partner to Improve Care Delivery and Positively Impact Hospital Length of Stay

Predictive Analytics Will Be Used to Optimize the Delivery of Acute Care Services and to Reduce the Patient’s Length of Stay in the Hospital

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Pervasive Prediction: Waiting is the Hardest Part

A proponent of predictive analytics argues that we’re on the cusp of an age of pervasive prediction. Will predictive analytics (PA) ever be as widely deployed as business intelligence (BI), or is it forever destined to be a kind of niche technology?

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Predixion Software Announces Full Functional Integration of Open Source R into its Advanced Predictive Analytics Platform

Predixion Software today announced the release of Predixion Insight™ 3.2, a groundbreaking solution that combines the sophisticated capabilities of the R programming language with advanced, easy-to-use functionality for creating and deploying predictive analytics to improve business outcomes. 

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Why are colleges getting free Big Data services?” by By Denny Carter, Managing Editor of eCampus News

Many colleges and universities are finding that Big Data analytics services aren’t included in the axiom preaching that there’s no such thing as a free lunch.

Hoping to mold a generation of college graduates specializing in analyzing data using certain proprietary Big Data software, companies are offering their services for free to campuses nationwide.

The latest offer is from California-based Predixion Software, which announced its Predixion in the Classroom (PIC) initiative Jan. 28.

Students at St. Joseph University, University of Maryland University College, the University of Washington, and the University of Western Michigan will have free access to Predixion’s predictive model software and related services through the PIC program.

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Solving the Data Scientist Dilemma” contributed by Simon Arkell in EDTECH Digest

In this era of Big Data, companies recognize the use of predictive analytics as the next defining tech wave that will fundamentally change the way businesses predict outcomes and provide services to customers. The demand is so great that even if every college were to graduate nothing but data scientists over the next few years, there would still be a shortage of professionals with analytic skills.

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“Predixion Pushes Big Data Analytics Into Schools” by Antone Gonsalves in CruxialCIO 

Predixion Software is providing its data analytics products at no charge to universities, joining many other vendors in seeking future sales among the next generation of data scientists.

On Jan. 28 the company launched the Predixion in the Classroom (PIC) program which provides the company’s software and related training materials. The program gives students hands-on experience in building predictive models and analyzing large data sets to extract useful business intelligence.

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