NAG for Business Intelligence and Business Analytics

Critical to business performance is intelligent, informed decision making. Business Intelligence and analytical applications have evolved to become the single most important element of an organisations software remit. Fundamental to business intelligence systems is the underlying numerical code which undertakes the complex computation, analytics, interpretation and result reporting.

ESSENTIAL TO THE PROCESS: Robust, Tried and Tested Algorithms!

NAG has been developing and supplying world-class mathematical and statistical algorithms to industry for over 4 decades. Included in NAG's extensive numerical and statistical libraries are routines ideally matched for the type of analytics required in business intelligence and analytics applications:

Vast range of Statistical routines including:

Time series analysis - ARIMA, GARCH
Correlation and Regression Analysis
Survival analysis
Multivariate analysis
Mixed effects regression

Optimization

Local and global optimization solvers
Linear and quadratic programming
Least squares
Non-linear programming

Suite of dedicated Data Mining and Cleaning routines

Data Transformations: Scaling Data and Principal Component Analysis
Cluster Analysis: k-means Clustering and Hierarchical Clustering
Classification: Classification Trees, Generalised Linear Models and Nearest Neighbours
Regression: Regression Trees, Linear Regression, Multi-layer Perception Neural Networks and Radial Basis Function Models
Cleaning: Data Imputation and Outlier Detection
Association Rules and Utility Functions

Routines for Quantitative Analysis

Explanatory and Predictive Modelling functionality NAG's globally renowned numerical libraries can aid business intelligence technologies:

Analytical Processing
Analytics
Data Mining
Business Performance Management
Benchmarking
Predictive Analysis and Forecasting

Reliability, Flexibility and Performance

Due to the extensive testing all NAG routines are subject to, users can implicitly trust their reliability and accuracy. Additionally, accompanying all NAG routines is comprehensive and detailed documentation. Users subscribing to NAG's support service gain access, via the NAG response centre to the experts who create the routines. NAG routines can be called from many diverse environments including Excel, VB, C, C++, .NET (C#, F#), Delphi for .NET and Java. It is available with support for all main stream architectiures Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris and AIX.

Custom Engineering

NAG offers a bespoke custom engineering program, outsourcing expertise for special projects. This service can help speed crucial development time and reduce costly resource on dedicated in-house engineers.