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Conference Co-Chair

Neil Raden

Prior to co-founding Smart (enough) Systems, Neil Raden was the founder of Hired Brains, a research and advisory firm in Santa Barbara, CA, offering research and analysis services to technology providers as well as providing consulting and implementation services in Business Intelligence and Analytics to many of the Global 2000 companies. Mr. Raden began his career as a casualty actuary with AIG in New York before moving into software engineering, consulting and industry analysis, with experience in the application of analytics to business processes from fields as diverse as health care to nuclear waste management to cosmetics marketing and many others in between. He is a practicing consultant, industry analyst, speaker and author. His articles appear in industry magazines and he is the author of dozens of sponsored white papers for vendors and other organizations.

Conference Co-Chair

James Taylor

Prior to co-founding Smart (enough) Systems, James Taylor was a Vice President at Fair Isaac Corporation where he developed and refined the concept of enterprise decision management or EDM. Widely credited with the invention of the term and the best known proponent of the approach, Mr Taylor helped create the emerging EDM market and is a passionate advocate of decision management. Mr. Taylor has 20 years experience in all aspects of the design, development, marketing and use of advanced technology including CASE tools, project planning and methodology tools as well as platform development in PeopleSoft's R&D team and consulting with Ernst and Young. He has consistently worked to develop approaches, tools and platforms that others can use to build more effective information systems. He is an experienced speaker and author, with his columns and articles appearing regularly in industry magazines.

Smart (enough) Systems LLC

Smart (enough) Systems LLC. helps clients automate and improve the decisions underpinning their day to day business operations. Smart (enough) Systems LLC. is the only full service, vendor neutral company focused on the enterprise decision management marketplace, providing research, advisory services and implementation. The company's singular focus on the automation and improvement of operational decisions allows it to bring multiple classes of technology to bear on solving business problems such as business agility, operational business intelligence, analytic competition and business process management.

Smart (enough) Systems LLC was formed as a result of the collaboration of two well-known and respected industry experts. In 2007, James Taylor of Fair Isaac and Neil Raden of Hired Brains released the first comprehensive book on decision services, "Smart (Enough) Systems: How to Deliver Competitive Advantage by Automating Hidden Decisions," Prentice Hall, 2007. That collaboration resulted in a partnership to provide industry analysis, research and implementation services in analytics and EDM.