XLNT Consulting - "Turning Data Into Dollars"
Help! We’re drowning in data! In just 10 years we have gone from measuring file size from Kilobytes, to Megabytes, to Gigabytes and now Terabytes. Are you extracting full value from all the data you hold?
Intelligent use and management of data has become a key competitive differentiator. Storing data is easy and cheap nowadays. Retrieving large volumes of data is not so easy, and making the best possible use of it is even harder. Are you managing your data for what it is: a key strategic resource? Does this follow from your data strategy?
XLNT Consulting is committed to helping companies make the best possible use of all the data they (could) hold. We do this through
- improving the value and quality of available data
- using data in smarter ways
- helping your employees get the best mileage from your data
Our experience with projects and training helps you gain a competitive edge.
News
My colleague Dr Maarten Terpstra wrote his PhD thesis on customer satisfaction in retail financial services.
Tom will be talking about Data Warehouse architecture as part of a BI Dutch roundtable discussion on 5 March 2009.
BI-expert van december - Tom was awarded BI-Expert for December 2008!
Tom joined the Dutch Business Intelligence blogging community in 2008 at http://www.bidutch.nl/ where he is a regular contributor.
XLNT Consulting is sponsoring an expedition to climb Mont Blanc www.klimmenvoorkanker.nl, the benefits go to a cancer fund.
Download Decision Trees presentation, 23 April 2008, London.
On April 23rd Tom will be presenting a talk on decision trees at the Henry Stewart “Statistics for Marketing” conference in London
On 26 September Tom will be speaking on "Affinity Analysis for Selecting
the Next Best Activity" at a conference in London titled "Understanding
the Toolkit of Advanced Analytics for Marketing".
On June 7 Tom will be speaking at an event hosted by Human Inference and Alfa Intelligence in Brussel (Belgium) where he will be addressing CRM Intelligence based on quality data. You can now download this presentation on Data Quality.
Tom was recently interviewed for TDWI (The Data Warehouse Institute). Report to appear in October titled "Predictive Analytics: Best Practices in Extending the Value of Your Data Warehousing Investment".
This report on Predictive Analytics is now available for downloading (pdf
format).
Recently my friend, colleague, and Million Dollar Consulting Hall of Famer Dan Coughlin has published a new book: “Accelerate” available at: http://800ceoread.com/products/?ISBN=9781419593727 and many other places.
On 28 June 2007 Tom will be delivering a presentation on Campaign Optimization for the Financial Services Analytics Forum in London.
On April 19 Tom will be speaking at a Microsoft Business Intelligence event
in Maarrssen, the Netherlands:
data mining presentation Tom Breur
You may now download Tom Breur's presentation on data mining.
Volume 11, Number 1 of the Journal of Financial Services Marketing features and article of Tom Breur titled: "The importance of focus for generating customer value".
XLNT Consulting sponsors professional squash tournament held 18-19-20 August 2006 in Tilburg, the Netherlands.
In June Tom was interviewed by Harvard Management Update for an article on innovative uses of data for data mining.
On 16 February Tom spoke on "Internet Research" at the Financial Services Research & Insight Forum in London.
Download his presentation titled "How To Maximize Your Online Research".
