Predictive Analytics news and trends

Reading Predictive Tea Leaves With Smart, Big Data
Big Data // February 26, 2020

The old adage that a butterfly flaps its wings and causes a hurricane is especially apt in business. After all, ripple effects cascade across firms’ top and bottom lines all the time. Demand for a hot product in one part of the world, stockouts or...

Predictive Analytics Tech Takes On Supply Chain Unknowns
B2B Payments // January 15, 2020

As board rooms and C-suite executives become more adequately well-versed on the strategic role supply chain management plays in business success, supply chain risk mitigation is rising to the top of corporate priority lists. But with so many risks seemingly outside of executives’ control —...

Goldman Invests $40M In LeanTaaS Healthcare Software Firm
Healthcare // December 12, 2019

Silicon Valley software innovator LeanTaaS closed a $40 million Series C3 funding round led by Goldman Sachs, LeanTaaS announced in a press release on Thursday (Dec. 12). LeanTaaS helps hospitals and health systems to increase access, as well as lower costs, through prescriptive and predictive...

Bank OS Provider nCino Adds Predictive Analytics
B2B Payments // November 14, 2019

Bank operating system provider nCino is expanding its functionality for financial institution (FI) clients with the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) and predictive analytics, the company said Thursday (Nov. 14). Its expanded Bank Operating System offering will integrate nCino IQ (nIQ), a solution that integrates...

Interviews & Exclusives
Reading Predictive Tea Leaves With Smart, Big Data

February 26, 2020
The old adage that a butterfly flaps its wings and causes a hurricane is especially apt in business. After all, ripple effects cascade across firms’ top and bottom lines all the time. Demand for a hot product in one part of the world, stockouts or even the coronavirus can all impact corporate fortunes, both short- […]

Visa CyberSource: AI’s Role Is To ‘Predict’ — Not To ‘Know’

May 28, 2019
Marvin Minsky, cognitive scientist and co-founder of MIT’s AI lab, said decades ago that computers can only do what we tell them to do.  Scott Boding, vice president of risk...

Here’s Why Context Will Play A Bigger Role In Banking

June 27, 2018
It’s all about the context — that stands as one of the oldest lessons passed along by teachers and mentors, lest a single fact or event take on oversized, or...

Too Much Security? There’s No Such Thing

August 18, 2017
Retailers are retailers, not security experts. Too often, their best efforts can create friction at the point of sale for consumers, which leads to shopping cart abandonment and lost revenue,...

Quick Reads
Goldman Invests $40M In LeanTaaS Healthcare Software Firm

December 12, 2019
Silicon Valley software innovator LeanTaaS closed a $40 million Series C3 funding round led by Goldman Sachs, LeanTaaS announced in a press release on Thursday (Dec. 12). LeanTaaS helps hospitals and health systems to increase access, as well as lower costs, through prescriptive and predictive analytics. The investment by Goldman Sachs is in addition to […]

Socure Data Privacy Standards Earn International Certification

May 10, 2018
Socure has announced that it’s earned several new international certifications for the privacy, confidentiality and security controls it employs to protect customer data. The company developed a patented, predictive analytics platform...

Software AG And OSlsoft Partner On Digital Transformation

April 25, 2017
Recently, enterprise software company Software AG announced a partnership with application software company OSIsoft. The goal of the partnership is to enable digital transformation, boost enterprise predictive analytics capability, grow...

Investment Tracker: FLYR’s Data Science Shakes Up Travel Industry

February 01, 2017
Investment activity picked up markedly in the penultimate week of January — but only as a headline. For the $1.4 billion in dealmaking activity seen in the week, roughly 85...