Their focus is on making it easier for business users to benefit from predictive analytics. Ease of use and deployment at the front line of an organization – at the point of decision – is a central focus and Predixion positions itself between tools designed for data scientists and black box analytic applications for business users, aiming to deliver the best of both worlds.

Tom Blomfield was named one of the Top 5 Entrepreneurs Under 30 in Europe; in addition to developing for the Ruby programming language and co-founding GoCardless, he recently wrote a column for TechCrunch about “x-as-a-service” startups. He notes that tech startups are taking advantage of “more specialized and niche services” to get themselves off the ground faster and easier than ever before; he then compares the trend to the brick-and-mortar world, where it is significantly harder to access outsourced services without size to back you up. Here is his take on these differences:

A couple of weeks ago I was honored to participate in the Accenture “Journey to Analytics ROI” panel in San Francisco. To say that I was enamored with the location, organization and quality of attendees is an understatement. You see we have been working with Accenture for much of the last 12 months and, most recently, in addition to inviting Predixion Software to be a global alliance partner, Accenture led our most recent round of funding as a company alongside GE. 

You may not be aware that just a few weeks ago we released our Predixion Insight Developer Edition.  I have to say I’m happily surprised at the amount of uptake and attention this release had generated, with new users coming on board and adopting Predixion Insight as their predictive platform of choice.