PMML - The Predictive Modeling Markup Language - is the primary XML format for describing predictive analytic models so that a modeling tool can share a model with either another modeling tool or, more usefully, with a deployment environment. The folks over at KDNuggets recently ran a poll asking their readers about their use of [...]

Zementis has recently announced its ADAPA predictive analytics edition for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. This essentially allows you to deploy PMML (Predictive Model Markup Language, an XML format for defining predictive analytic models) on the Amazon compute cloud. Based on their Enterprise Edition (which has PMML deployment, reporting and business rules (using Drools), this [...]

ILOG today announced a Scorecard modeler as an add-on for ILOG JRules® (which I first saw at DIALOG). As their press release says, this add-in allows customers to “incorporate statistical scorecard models directly into decision services” - a key tenet of enterprise decision mangement or EDM. ILOG is targeting financial institutions clearly but apparently also [...]

A little while ago I got to talk to Mike Zeller and his team at Zementis about their decision management platform - ADAPA, what they call a predictive analytics decision engine. ADAPA stands for Adaptive Decision And Predictive Analytics.
The folks at Zementis started trying to solve a fairly common problem in organizations adopting data mining [...]