Data Models and Scoring Applications Available for Government, Retail, Healthcare, Financial Services, Law Enforcement, Insurance, and CRM Deployments
Information Builders, an independent leader in business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced a partnership with Fractal Analytics, a leading provider of advanced analytics, to develop predictive analytics solutions on Information Builders' WebFOCUS RStat BI and data-mining platform. Fractal's predictive analytics solutions will be deployed through the WebFOCUS RStat application to help clients have an end-to-end solution from development to deployment.
The Information Builders-Fractal partnership is currently working with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) to develop crime-forecasting applications. Using historical data of crime patterns, Fractal is developing predictive models that will tell the CMPD when and where they should deploy resources to fight crime. Information Builders will implement these models through WebFOCUS so the police department can drill down through data and reallocate officers to targeted areas to reduce criminal activity. While CMPD has always used data to understand trends, this is the first time the department will use a specific set of data from multiple sources to forecast future trends. When implemented, the WebFOCUS RStat application will enable CMPD supervisors to forecast crime and develop strategies to prevent it using statistical models based on historical crimes, calls for service, the nature of crime, population density, weather, special events, and more...