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Open Data Group

Open Data provides management consulting, outsourced analytic services, and analytic staffing so that companies and organizations can analyze data and build analytic models that increase revenues, decrease costs, reduce risk, and improve business operations.

Open Data has experience working with customer data, supplier data, third party data, as well as data from internal business processes.

Companies today have an unprecedented opportunity to increase their revenues, decrease costs, mitigate risks, and make more timely decisions through a careful analysis of their data and a skillful deployment of technology. Open Data provides the consulting and outsourced services to help companies achieve more with their data, both strategically and tactically.

Recent News

• April, 2009, Augustus version 0.3.1 was released. Augustus is an open source platform for estimating and deploying multiple predictive models that was developed by Open Data. Version 0.3.1 was just released on Source Forge.
• January, 2009, MalStone. Open Data Group worked together with other members of the Open Cloud Consortium to help develop a cloud computing benchmark for data intensive computing called MalStone.
• Robert Grossman has given several recent talks on cloud computing:
  • An Overview of the Open Cloud Consortium, Cloud Computing Interoperability Workshop, in conjunction with the Object Management Group (OMG) Technical Meeting, Crystal City, Virginia, March 16, 2009.
  • Extending Analytics to Clouds, 8th Annual ON*VECTOR International Photonics Workshop, La Jolla, California, February 24, 2009.
  • Cloud Computing: The Importance of the Data Center for Science, AAAS Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, February 16, 2009.
  • A talk at Cloud Computing at its Applications CCA 08 in Chicago on Oct 23, 2008 that looked at cloud computing from a viewpoint in which the data center is the unit of computation.
  • A Plenary Talk on cloud computing the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2008 in Edinburgh, UK on September 9, 2008.
  • A talk on August 26, 2008 at KDD 08 in Las Vegas comparing Sector/Sphere to Hadoop. Sector is about twice as fast.
  • A Keynote Talk on cloud computing at the 2008 IEEE Congress on Services (Services 2008) on July 10, 2008 in Hawaii.

Open Data Group Expertise

Open Data provides management consulting services and outsourced analytic services and specializes in the following areas:

1. Analytic services - planning, designing, and implemented distributed, real-time systems for data processing, data analysis, analytics, business intelligence, and related areas. A particular specialty of Open Data is the development of open, standards-based systems for analytics, including cloud-based systems and specialized systems for high volume transaction streams.
2. Customer relationship management (CRM) - analyzing customer data to improve revenues and profitability. Open Data builds data marts and uses these to build and deploy customer response models, attrition models, and lifetime value models.
3. Risk management - analyzing data to reduce fraud and to identify other types of risk, including credit risk. Open Data has developed and deployed statistical models that identify fraudulent transactions and events. Open Data has also developed and deployed credit scores.
4. Providing expert witnesses and technical due diligence - providing experts for independent evaluations of software and technology, litigation support services, competitive analysis, evaluation of strategic fit, and technical trend analysis.
5. Supply chain systems - analyzing data from suppliers to improve logistics, inventory, and utilization. Open Data has developed algorithms that improve logistics and optimize supply chains.
6. Data mining, knowledge management, and corporate data management- extracting knowledge from data and using the knowledge to improve business processes. Open Data develops open standards-based systems for data mining and high performance analytics.
7. Proprietary trading - Open Data develops and deploys proprietary trading technology.