Rexer Analytics Senior Consultant, Paul Gearan, and NES Solution Architect Leo Coughlin delivered a hands-on workshop to invited IBM clients at IBM’s Cambridge Office. Their workshop, Enhancing Business Intelligence with Predictive Capabilities: IBM Cognos Analytics & SPSS, explained and demonstrated how the predictive capabilities of IBM SPSS Modeler can be combined with the reporting and dashboarding capabilities of IBM Cognos to provide an outstanding BI platform for analysis, prediction, and communication. Paul and Leo covered these topics:
They stressed how together these two IBM tools enable companies to progress from measuring and reacting to historical events to predicting and taking proactive action to shape the future.