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Ironside Is IBM’s Business Intelligence Partner of the Year for 2015

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IBM Business Intelligence Partner Award Logo

Last week at IBM Insight, Ironside was presented with IBM’s Business Intelligence Partner of the Year award for 2015. The press release below provides more details on the award and what it means for us.

Lexington, MA (October 24, 2015) – This week at the IBM Insight conference, Ironside had the honor of being name Business Intelligence Partner of the Year for 2015. The award recognizes the IBM Business Partner that has delivered exceptional solutions using IBM products and services in the BI space this year. Read more

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Cognos Analytics: Top 4 Release Features from Insight 2015

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This year’s IBM Insight conference has been chock full of many exciting announcements so far, including news about the next version of Cognos BI – Cognos Analytics.

Scheduled for general release by the end of 2015, Cognos Analytics promises an improved total experience for the entire analytics community from the business user to the IT developer, delivering enhanced usability focused on bringing together self-service and governance, two areas often thought to be incompatible. Cognos Analytics aims to change that perception by addressing both the increasing pressure for self-service and the critical need for governance in one elegant and intuitive enterprise-ready platform. Read more

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Ironside Webinar Series: Putting Data on the Map with Location Intelligence

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Putting Data on the Map with LI Diagram

On October 1st, Ironside hosted a webinar on Putting Data on the Map with Location Intelligence. You will get all the key facts on location intelligence and hear a Q&A panel of Ironside developers, Ironside data scientists, and location intelligence specialists from our partner Pitney Bowes. Read more

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Evolve or Die: Business Intelligence’s Future

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Business intelligence has been around for a long time. From decision support systems in the 1960s through Ralph Kimball’s books on dimensional modeling in the 1980s, the core concepts of the discipline are decades old. As these concepts and the products built around them mature, more advanced techniques and technologies come to light that evolve and redefine what we thought we knew about the business intelligence space and business intelligence’s future. For instance, developments like the cloud, data visualization tools, and predictive analytics are changing the way businesses evaluate and make decisions from their data. Read more

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Ironside Case Study: Manchester PD’s Predictive Policing Success

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Law enforcement is a place where data science and predictive analytics have the chance to truly change lives. These strategies and technologies can make a huge difference in crime prevention and public safety efforts, improving people’s wellbeing in communities of all sizes. The Manchester, NH Police Department wanted to make this kind of impact in their city, and chose to implement Ironside’s Predictive Policing platform to achieve their crime reduction goals. Read more

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What’s New in Cognos 10.2.2: The Top 10 Features You Need to Know

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Update, October 6, 2015: Cognos 10.2.2 has been around for almost a year now, and we’ve had a lot of time to dig deeper into the features we discussed originally in this article. To keep you informed on what we’ve found out, this post’s original author Crystal Meyers has gone back and added new reflections and insights she’s gained while working with 10.2.2 in the field. Check out her new thoughts in italics below. Read more

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Crimefighting with Ironside Predictive Policing: Manchester PD’s Success Makes News

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Manchester PD on NH1 News

Earlier this month, NH1 News put out a report showcasing how the Manchester, NH Police Department is using predictive policing to successfully reduce crime in the city, and Ironside is honored to have played a part in this achievement. Read more

3 Ways Location Intelligence Is Already Part of Your Life

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So what’s the best way to learn any new analytics technology? Tell a story. Stats are fun and features are great, but it’s all just talk without context. In this spirit, we’re going to show you some examples of how location intelligence can be an ideal platform for out-of-the-box thinking in real-world settings.

Just to set the stage, let’s start with a quick, easy description around what location intelligence is and what it does. At its heart, location intelligence is all about enabling you to see internal and external data relevant to your business visualized in the real world. Using these intuitive displays, you can see what’s impacting your current state, plot future trends, and define clear actions to move your organization forward. Read more

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Ironside and Pitney Bowes Announce Location Intelligence Partnership

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Ironside is happy to announce that we have partnered with Pitney Bowes, one of the top location intelligence and data providers, to transform how our clients see, interact with, and gain insight from the location and business information to which they have access. The Pitney Bowes partnership pairs their sophisticated location intelligence technologies and comprehensive, diverse data sets with Ironside’s unrivaled analytics expertise and technical know-how to bring to market solutions that give geographic context to organizations’ historical data, provide actionable location-based intelligence in real time, and even map future trends using variables relevant to the area displayed. Read more

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Industry Case Study: Powering Admissions Strategy for Higher Education

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Ironside’s client, a leading New England technical institute, wanted to get predictive with their admissions strategy, leveraging advanced analytics to generate projections that would have measurable impacts on the number of successful students continuing on past their freshman year. They also wanted these projections to integrate seamlessly with the admissions process, providing counselors with actionable guidance and standards for admittance. Read more