Great Hurwitz Report on Predictive Analytic tools
The Hurwitz Group just published their Victory Index for Predictive Analytics. This is a great report on the core predictive analytic vendors written by Marcia Kaufman and Daniel Kirsch. The report covers Angoss, IBM, Megaputer, Pegasystems, Predixion, RapidMiner, Revolution Analytics, SAS, SAP, StatSoft. The report aims to assess four things about each vendor:
- Vision – how good the company’s strategy for predictive analytics is
- Viability – how sustainable the company’s presence in the market is
- Validity – how customers perceive the technical benefits and capabilities of the company’s product
- Value – how much business value customers achieve with the company’s product
This assessment is based on vendor surveys, vendor s