From TDWI’s BI This Week Newsletter
By Stephen Swoyer
Predixion’s goal was to develop a solution that makes data mining and predictive analytics consumable and usable by rank-and-file workers. Has it succeeded?
Predixion Software Inc. made its U.S. splash last year, promising to democratize, or at the very least to demystify, data mining. Predixion’s project wasn’t just to bring data mining and predictive analytics down from the proverbial mountaintop, but to make them consumable — to make them intelligible and self-serviceable — for rank-and-file users, too.
How is the project coming along?
Pretty well, says CEO Simon Arkell, who notes that Predixion shipped a revamped version 2.2 release of its flagship Insight offering in early March. The product delivers support for Microsoft Corp.’s new SQL Server 2012 release. In a slight revision of Predixion’s über-democratic, cloud-based model, the revamped Insight 2.2 supports either on-premises or — via its new partnership with Intel Corp. — hybrid cloud deployment schemes. (Predixion also has partnerships with Microsoft Corp. — Insight runs against SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) — and EMC Corp.)
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