BIS² Super Graphics Showcased this Week at 

Sabre® AirVision™ Global Conference

Ft Lauderdale, Florida – May 17th, 2012 - BIS² announced today that it has been attending the Sabre AirVision Global Conference this week in Ft Lauderdale, Florida and showcasing with Sabre Airline Solutions, the integration of its multi-award winning Super Graphics with the Sabre® AirVision™ Profit Manager product.

"From the outset we have been very impressed with the unique BIS² Super Graphics which display huge amounts of data in a powerful and easy-to-understand format. The integration of the BIS² Super Graphics with one of our flagship products, Sabre® AirVision™ Profit Manager, is a special step in the development of our technology partnership with BIS²,” states Renzo Vaccari, Director Solutions Management of Sabre Airline Solutions. “We are delighted with the feedback we are getting on this new integrated product and enjoyed showcasing it this week at our AirVision Global Conference," Vaccari adds.

"Profit Manager is a powerful decision support tool for evaluating network profitability and allows airlines to perform various types of “what if” analysis about scheduling and routes. We have applied the BIS² Super Graphics to the output of Profit Manager enabling consumers of the data to truly understand traffic, demand, and spill across all markets globally”, says Andrew Cardno, BIS² CTO. “Using multiple Super Graphics side-by-side shows this data in extreme detail enabling insight and action. Many of our customers are now using the BIS² Super Graphics to build Strategic Business Intelligence “War Rooms” and using these War Rooms for interactive decision support and to drive their businesses,” Cardno added.

About Sabre® AirVision™ Profit Manager

Accurate, robust forecasting algorithms and “what if” analysis capabilities enable airlines all over the world to develop profitable schedules and identify revenue opportunities in the competitive airline industry. Sabre® AirVision™ Profit Manager, is an integrated solution that allows airlines to perform various types of “what-if” scenarios ranging from a new market analysis and codeshare/alliance modeling to measure the impact of competitor changes on an airline’s network.

About BIS²’s airViz™ Solution

airViz™ is an industry-specific, hyper-advanced, data visualization software solution from BIS² that allows airlines with massive data collections to directly query their data and see the results visually using innovative and powerful Super Graphics. airViz™ represents the next generation of data visualization software for strategic, operational, and analytical users of business intelligence data from the airline industry. Using Super Graphics to view large data sets gives the user a better way to understand and interpret complex information and quickly identify patterns that reveal improvement opportunities.

About Sabre

Sabre Airline Solutions, part of the Sabre Holdings family, is the world's leading provider of high performance solutions for airlines and airports, helping companies generate more revenue by optimizing performance in 14 key areas of airline operations. More than 300 leading air carriers and over 100 airports use their solutions to better market their schedules, sell their products, serve their customers and operate efficiently. Sabre also distribute software solutions and consulting services to customers spanning six continents, powering the progress of a key segment of the world’s largest industry — travel and tourism. For more information please visit www.sabreairlinesolutions.com.

About BIS²

BIS²’s airline industry solution, called airViz™, enables airline operators to view and analyze data sets that provide the vital insights needed to gain a competitive advantage. With BIS²’s Super Graphics™, airline operators can rapidly adapt to revenue changes by gaining valuable insights into data from both within and outside the organization. BIS² is an innovative leader in enterprise-ready, standards-based, visually-centric analytics with solutions that reveal the trends and patterns in volumes of operational data so organizations can understand what actions are required now and tomorrow. BIS² has been recognized with multiple awards such as Gaming and Leisure Magazine’s Technology Impact award, their Product Interoperability award and Casino Enterprise Managements Top 10 Slot Floor products to name a few. Other industry specific solutions available from BIS² include clubViz™ (for premiere clubs), gameViz™ (for casino gaming operators), telViz™ (for telcos), insuranceViz™ (for insurance companies), retailViz™ (for retailers), entertainmentViz™ (for entertainment companies), makeViz™ (for manufacturing companies) and moneyViz™ (for financial institutions). For more information, please call 1-877-592-2472 or visit www.bis2.net.

 

Big Data Predictions for 2012

There are some great articles around predicting the year in big data. Here is a Wordle analysis of some of these articles.

..."Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text..." Making it a quick and interesting way to visualize popular phrases in text—highly appropriate for the sector!

As you could have predicted, big data features most prominently, with enterprise, solutions and Hadoop also showing up in bold. A great resource for the buzz words in 2012 big data!

Article Link: Forrester: Customer Experience Management and 13 Emerging CRM Trends

Article via CMS Wire

According to recent research from Forrester, despite widespread adoption and deployment, many IT and business people say they are struggling with CRM strategy and technologies.

"...[Struggling] not just with how to define the correct CRM strategies for their enterprise, but also struggling to re-engineer customer-facing processes where those processes are not working, and struggling to acquire the appropriate technologies to deal with the problems...."

In this article—which links to the report itself—Forrester researcher William Band discusses several facets of CRM strategy that are necessary: "...Success, he says, requires maintaining a focus on four critical elements simultaneously: strategy, process, technology and people..."

Read more here.

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How do you make knowledge powerful?
This excellent Motion Graphic describes the value of data visualization.




Agency: Column Five Media
Creative Director: Ross Crooks
Project Manager: Nick Miede
Motion Designer: Chase Ogden
Graphic Designer: Andrew Effendy
Voice Over: Erin Spencer

BIS2 lands in the Top 20 Most Innovative Gaming Technology Products Awards 2011

We're excited to be named in Casino Journal's Top 20 Most Innovative Gaming Technology Products Awards 2011! Read on for more details.

BIS² Wins Twice in Casino Journal Top 20 Most Innovative Gaming Technology Products Awards 2011

San Diego, CA – May 1st, 2012 - BIS², the market leader in providing visually-centric BI tools to the gaming industry, announced today that Casino Journal has recognized two of its latest product innovations in the Top 20 Most Innovative Gaming Technology Products Awards 2011. The two products recognized were BIS²’s new tableVizPLUS product and BIS²’s Customer Preference Calculators.

“We are really excited to be included in Casino Journal’s Top 20 Awards. It exemplifies BIS²’s commitment to delivering real innovation and value-added solutions to our customers,” said Mukesh Gordhan, BIS² CEO. “Our fast growing list of customers, both domestically and around the world, is also a true testament to the uniqueness and value of our technology,” added Gordhan.

“We have been working very closely with our customers and identified some real needs in the market that were not being met. BIS²’s unique ability to combine gaming knowledge, with software engineering, advanced mathematics and data visualization, has enabled us to deliver some very impressive solutions,” states Andrew Cardno, BIS² CTO. “Customer feedback on our new innovations has been fantastic and I am pleased that both our tableVizPLUS product and our Customer Preference Calculators have been recognized in the Casino Journal awards,” Cardno adds.

“BIS²’s Customer Preference Calculators have really changed the way we look at customer play and the gaming floor. We can now get rid of all the noise in our data and really understand preferences and see what is happening on the floor,” said Mike Paulos, Business Analyst, Marketing, Cannery Casino Resorts. “The results have been tremendous and it is changing the way we are approaching our analytics,” added Paulos.

“BIS²’s new tableVizPLUS product is getting a fantastic response from casino operators, particularly from those with stronger table games operations,” said Sylvain Tassé, BIS² partner, BI2U founder and director. “The product is bringing table game analytics on par with those of slot analytics,” added Tassé.

BIS²’s gameViz™ industry solution for the gaming industry, allows casino operators to directly interrogate their data and see the results visually using innovative and powerful Super Graphics™. gameViz represents the next generation of advanced data visualization software for strategic, operational, and analytical users of gaming data. It enables users to understand and take action on their gaming data in a new way. Using Super Graphics to view complex data analysis gives the users a better way to understand their data and quickly identify patterns and improvement opportunities.

A panel of expert judges evaluated more than 60 entries from industry vendors showcasing their newest, most innovative products and services to decide Casino Journal's Top 20 Most Innovative Gaming Technology Products Awards for 2011. Judging this year's contest were Greg Solomon, Chief Executive Officer, MotorCity Casino; Donne Grable, Vice President, Gaming Operations, VCAT LLC; and Warren Davidson, Slot Director, Coushatta Resort.

About Casino Journal

Casino Journal is an independent global information source serving every gaming sector. Providing solutions to real world challenges facing executives and operators in today's economic climate, their readers learn about industry trends, new technologies and how to meet changing customer expectations with clarity and concrete solutions. Bringing timely and authoritative coverage via Casino Journal’s monthly magazine (now available in either print or digital) and their three e-Newsletters: Games & Technology Report, Gaming Headlines, and Products of the Week. Casino Journal and BNP Media's Gaming Group combines print, the Internet, e-Newsletters, custom publishing, live conferences and much more to provide superior information to help the gaming industry thrive and businesses to succeed.  

About BIS²

BIS²’s gaming industry solution, called gameViz, enables casino operators to view and analyze data sets that provide the vital insights needed to gain a competitive advantage. With BIS²’s Super Graphics™, casinos can rapidly drive and adapt to revenue changes by understanding data from both within and outside the enterprise. BIS² is an innovative leader in enterprise-ready, standards-based, visually-centric analytics with solutions that reveal the trends and patterns in volumes of operational data so organizations can understand what actions are required now and tomorrow. BIS² have previously been recognized with multiple awards such as Gaming and Leisure Magazine’s Technology Impact award, their Product Interoperability award and Casino Enterprise Managements Top 10 Slot Floor products to name a few. Other industry specific solutions available from BIS² include airViz™ (for airlines), clubViz™ (for premiere clubs), resortViz™ (for resort operators), telViz™ (for telcos), insuranceViz™ (for insurance companies), retailViz™ (for retailers), entertainmentViz™ (for entertainment companies), makeViz™ (for manufacturing companies) and moneyViz™ (for financial institutions). For more information, please call 1-877-592-2472 or visit www.bis2.net.

 Welcome to the Anthropocene


"A 3-minute journey through the last 250 years of our history, from the start of the Industrial Revolution to the Rio+20 Summit. The film charts the growth of humanity into a global force on an equivalent scale to major geological processes.

The film was commissioned by the Planet Under Pressure conference, London 26-29 March, a major international conference focusing on solutions.

planetunderpressure2012.net

The film is part of the world's first educational webportal on the Anthropocene, commissioned by the Planet Under Pressure conference, and developed and sponsored by
anthropocene.info..."

Article Link: Big Data's Big Problem: Little Talent 

We always love hearing what Hilary Mason has to say – as chief data scientist at bit.ly she always has a pragmatic and interesting approach to the big topic of big data! 

"...Hilary Mason [...] says a data scientist must have three key skills. "They can take a data set and model it mathematically and understand the math required to build those models; they can actually do that, which means they have the engineering skills…and finally they are someone who can find insights and tell stories from their data. That means asking the right questions, and that is usually the hardest piece."..."

Despite the shortage of these multi-talented data experts (as Hilary points out in the short interview video embedded in this article) there are many tools becoming available and specialized education programs which are specifically engineered to help businesses and individuals deal with the deluge of data.

Read more here.

Beautiful visualization by Evan Westvang 



"300.000 Norwegians move house every year. If the pattern made by this process could be compressed into one short animation, what would would it look like? What could you learn about your country from such an animation, if anything?

Deluge is a C++ application designed to answer these questions. The underlying data was generated by cross referencing Norwegian tax records from 2006 and 2007 to find changes in postal codes..."

Article Link: Business Intelligence and Analytics in High School Sports

It's exciting to think that high-schoolers are being exposed to this type of  problem solving – just think of the future data scientists that might get a chance to see things a different way!

"...Amazingly, this high school coach was but one of 475 high school coaches across the country that have paid a New York-based company named Krossover as much as $2,000 a year to take their digital game film and break it down into some of the most advanced metrics that youth basketball has ever seen..." 

Read more here

CBO Budget Infographics

Great to see infographics making important information more accessible and easy to digest.

"...These infographics provide a more detailed look at the material presented in CBO's infographic on the federal budget—released last December—which provided an overview of some key elements of the budget and a visual history of the budget deficit and federal debt over the past 40 years..."

Read and see more here.