Here's How Pulse Meridian Can Help

Today's businesses realize the value of collecting data. However, it is easier to accumulate data than it is to understand, interpret and capitalize on it. Pulse Meridian can help fulfill this essential demand.

Here, we've collected examples of the kind of services Pulse Meridian can provide you, based upon real success stories from organizations around the world. If you've heard of a technique applied in the industry, chances are Pulse Meridian can do the same for you.

Highlights

Measuring employee engagement
Best Buy retail, 2007-06-01

Many companies wonder exactly how their investment in employee incentives and encouragement affect the bottom line. According to a recent Economist article by Scott Leibs, Best Buy found the answer by working out a system of metrics relating disparate parts of the organization. They quantified employee engagement through a simple scoring system and found that it correlated directly with operating income: every 10th of a point in engagement earned them an additional $100,000.

Pulse Meridian can help you measure relationships like these in your own business using such techniques as association rule mining, modeling, and standard statistics.

Unstructured data
Eastman Kodak, NACCO Industries photgraphic tools, 2005-08-07

In many organizations, a large fraction of relevant data isn't governed by the tidy schema of a database table. It is either unstructured or the structure is unknown (think documents, web content, email, etc.). Not surprisingly, this is the hardest type of data for most business intelligence software to analyze.

However, effectively analyzing unstructured data is vital for many companies. According to the Associated Press, companies like Eastman Kodak scour patent filings (their own and competitors') for connections. NACCO Industries scans tens of thousands of warranty claims and service reports for patterns that might reveal defects in their manufacturing process. Responding early can stave off a flood of returned products.

Analyzing unstructured data is Pulse Meridian's expertise. We're intimately familiar with a large body of cutting edge literature providing scalable techniques for finding patterns in data that doesn't fit into the relational model.