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Entrepreneur.com - Data Crunch: 5 Analysis Tools for Small Businesses |
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Thanks to significant government and private-sector
investment, a new generation of data analysis tools is
now within reach for small firms facing information
overload. While most so-called "big data" tools still target large enterprises that think nothing of spending six figures to manage information, a number of reasonably priced data analysis tools that small firms can use to manage large amounts of information can turn raw data into actionable analysis with minimal fuss. Here are five such tools your small business can use to get big results from large amounts of data:... 3. Quantum Leap Buzz Twitter arguably does a sub-par job of analyzing the data it generates. But Newark, Del.-based Quantum Leap Innovations attempts to fill that gap with a data visualization and analysis tool for both Twitter and Facebook. What it does: Quantum Leap Buzz organizes tweets and posts into coherent themes. Search for a word or phrase and the tool attempts to give an idea of the conversation surrounding it. The number and names of people talking about a subject can be broken out, and the popularity of each theme is displayed. Themes can be analyzed for positive or negative sentiment and for how individual users react to that set of ideas. Who should use it: This can be an important asset for social media marketers, particularly for analyzing competitors' social media strategy. Price: The software is free to download and compatible with both Macs and PCs.... Full Article |
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Updated Version of Quantum Leap Buzz Social Media Search and Monitoring for Twitter and Facebook Released for FREE Download |
| PRNewswire -- "Quantum Leap Buzz is a disruptive innovation," said Joseph B. Elad, founder and CEO of Quantum Leap Innovations. "An incredible amount of time and money has been spent by individuals and companies trying to better understand what people are thinking and feeling. Quantum Leap Buzz mines trending Twitter and Facebook patterns to provide unprecedented analysis of public sentiment in real-time, free of charge, and far more effectively than products that cost thousands of dollars. That's why I call it 'disruptive." Full Article | |
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PCWorld Reviews Quantum Leap Buzz |
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Twitter is a great way to learn a little bit of
information about a whole lot of subjects. But if
you're looking to dig deeper into a certain subject
area, the micro-blogging service can seem
overwhelming. Unless you have Quantum Leap Buzz, that
is. This application uses "Pattern-Based Analytics" to
help you identify and analyze trends on Twitter.
Quantum Leap Buzz is currently available in a free
Consumer Version. The company hopes the free version
will introduce folks to the concept of pattern-based
analytics, and entice business people to upgrade to
the $495 business edition, which will be released in
April. To use the application, you simply enter a search term. Quantum Leap Buzz doesn't point you to trending topics on Twitter, as a service like TwitScoop attempts to do. Instead, Quantum Leap Buzz lets you find out more on the topics that interest you. Once you've entered a search term, the application searches tweets on that keyword and analyzes the patterns there. Results are returned to you organized by topics and subcategorized by themes. For example, a search for "pcworld" returned five topics: sxsw, china's, leads, apps, and google's. Within the "sxsw" topic, Quantum identified three themes: "sxsw concerns", "sxsw hosts", and "sxsw bad." The topics are arranged by the number of tweets, which gives you an idea of what people actually are discussing most. But the "pcworld" search shows how the content of the tweets can subtly shape the result: the "leads" topic came second because an article with the headline "Google's Trap for Chrome Exploit Writers Leads to Crashes for Users," was tweeted about, and then retweeted many times. That tweet was more about "Google" than "Leads," but Quantum focused on the one word instead of the other. It's one example of why the the results that Quantum Leap Buzz delivers are, on their own, interesting, they're not quite the full story. I do like that Quantum Leap Buzz now displays the author in its results, something that was missing in an earlier beta. This makes it easy to see who is tweeting, allowing you to gauge whether they are or are not a reputable source. Quantum's approach may be too much for casual twitter users, but it could be useful for business who are trying to keep tabs on their own customers and products, or those of the competition. And I can see how journalists could find such a tool useful when researching articles or looking for article topics. Quantum Leap Buzz also includes a handful of tools that these folks will appreciate, including the ability to schedule searches and download results into a PDF for later viewing. -- Liane Cassavoy |
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Quantum Leap Innovations Offers Free Subscription to Twitter Analysis Tool “Quantum Leap Buzz” |
| Free Consumer Edition Provides Never Before Available Twitterverse Analytics; Business Edition Available for Purchase in April | |
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NEWARK, Del.--(BUSINESS
WIRE)--Quantum Leap Innovations®,
pioneers of Pattern-Based Analytics™ (PBA) today
announced the release of Quantum Leap Buzz Consumer
Edition, providing users with never before seen
Twitterverse analytics (what real people are
thinking). Quantum Leap Buzz is the first-ever PBA
tool used to instantly filter and distil trending
Twitter topics, delivering valuable intelligence and
insights from the Twitterverse.
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New Daily Service to be
Featured on the Back Page of The Economic Times
and Feature Top Tweeting Trends Through
TwitterMeter
NEWARK, Del.--(BUSINESS
WIRE)--Quantum Leap Innovations,
developer of the world’s most advanced social
media analytics product--Quantum Leap Buzz,
announced today that it is entering into a
strategic partnership with The Economic Times.
The Economic Times will use Quantum Leap
Buzz to create TwitterMeter™, a tool which
will provide daily intelligence to their readers
covering the top trending themes on Twitter. The
TwitterMeter will be featured daily on the back
page of The Economic Times. The Economic
Times is the world’s third largest daily
financial newspaper.
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Pattern-Based Analytics Could Save a World Drowning in Data |
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In the middle of 2011, UK-based Derwent Capital started a hedge fund that used a Twitter feed to fuel their market analytics. They beat the market by 50 percent in their first month of operation. While they’ve been tight-lipped about the mathematics used by their resident “quants,” it’s clear that there is serious gold to be mined in these massive streams of social media that are spraying the world like a fire hose. Enter Pattern-Based Analytics from a little-known “spook shop” in Delaware. Since 1999 they’ve been delivering millions of dollars worth of find-a-needle-in-that-haystack projects to the U.S. Department of Defense. Over $32 million, to be precise. During the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic, their simulations showed the government it would be stupid to close the boarder with Mexico or shut down airports. They’ve been used in Iraq and Afghanistan to search for patterns in roadside bombings as well as to deploy military assets for the Navy and the Air Force. Full Article |
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Technorati Says: Social Analytics Makes a "Quantum Leap" |
The world of social media analytics is about to be revolutionized by a creative new program that will change the way in which social media networks and the information on them is shared. The revolutionary program called Quantum Leap Buzz is definitely going to be a game changer. In this conversation with two of the creative minds behind Quantum Leap Innovations, CEO Joseph Elad and Board of Directors Key Advisor Rick Bennett, we’ll get a peek at some of the promises that come with making a Quantum Leap in social media analytics. Full Article
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Pattern Recognition Analytics Could Give New Shape to Social Web |
Social media experts dream of uncovering trends on Twitter and elsewhere and perhaps even getting a sense of the public's overall mood. But sentiment analysis remains a kind of fuzzy art today, even as some companies plan to predict everything from stock market performance to brand and product reactions based on Twitter sentiments.
Pattern-based analytics could help make this dream a reality -- or at least, that's what advanced analytics vendor Quantum Leap Innovations believes. The company recently released new "pattern-recognition" software, called Quantum Leap Buzz, for beta testing. It's pitching the software for monitoring Twitter in particular.
Here are a few examples of how pattern-based analytics might come into play, according to a company press release:
- Beating the news to breaking stories. Twitter, in particular, has been credited with spreading big news (the death of Michael Jackson, for example) much more quickly than traditional news media. With Quantum Leap Buzz, traditional and online new sources, PR firms, and other news watchers can monitor tweets to help identify breaking news before their competitors
- Beating your competitors to actionable intelligence. Same as in the case of news stories, people tweet about everything imaginable, including information you and your competitors would kill for, but sifting through all of the "noise" of the Twitterverse doesn't make locating it easy.
- Instant notification of trending developments. The company also claims the tool will deliver regular updates to your cellphone, smartphone, or other mobile device, if you wish, giving you almost a real-time overview of trends as they unfold.
- Track sentiments connected to your key issues. You can use this tool to track the issues you're most concerned about and the sentiment of others on Twitter toward those issues. (For example, you might be tracking public sentiment toward Newt Gingrich and other GOP presidential contenders or toward President Barack Obama.)
Quantum Leap Buzz allows users to sort through millions of updates on Twitter by typing in a keyword and bringing up all occurrences of that keyword displayed in trends and patterns. The tool displays the individual tweets under each trend or pattern category and how many times each keyword was tweeted. See the video for more details.
The social media, text analytics, and sentiment analysis experts I contacted last week told me they aren't yet familiar with the new application. But Web analytics consultant and AllAnalytics.com blogger Pierre DeBois said he's excited at the prospect, especially as Quantum Leap has vetted its algorithm through government and Wall Street users. This means it has developed a B2B-relatable search, he wrote in an email response.
Whether Quantum Leap Buzz becomes a popular technology depends on the user experience and price of the tool once it hits the market, DeBois said.
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Quantum Leap Innovations launches Buzz, a different approach to social media analytics |
Joseph Budner Elad has spent much of the past 12 years developing a "Pattern-Based Analytics" engine, which uses a combination of statistical, mathematical, heuristic and other tools to discover patterns in data that otherwise might not be seen by different methodologies. Full Article
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Twitter Trend-Spotting Tool is Now Free to the Public |
Quantum Leap Buzz is developed by CEO Joseph Budner Elad to help analyze tweets and pick up on trends before they even reach mainstream media. Buzz is based on similar analytics Elad helped develop for government officials to examine geo-political, world health, economic and military trends. Now, the program in beta version is free to download for anyone... Full Article
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Quantum Leap sees gold in mining social media data |
NEW YORK - He has helped the military predict where bombs will go off and worked with law enforcement to fight crime, but now Quantum Leap Innovations CEO Joseph Budner Elad wants to use his technology to help consumers.
On February 29 the Newark, Delaware, based company will release Quantum Leap Buzz, a tool that uses Pattern-Based analytics for social media, starting with Twitter, to mine data from the huge amounts of information created on these sites every day.
The tool, which can be downloaded from the company's website for $10 a year, allows users to search for words or phrases and then identifies themes and trends around the search giving a sense of their popularity. Full Article
Pattern-Based Analytics featured in the Gannett's News Journal
Seeing a Pattern: Analytics company uses high-tech software to mine data
Joseph Budner Elad has
sought patterns in roadside bombings in war, and the path of
deadly pathogens. Now, Elad, president and CEO of Quantum Leap
Innovations of Newark, has begun putting his company's
pattern-seeking technology to more everyday use for business.
For instance, the software can examine whether patients who
get readmitted to a hospital share certain traits, or which
other products a bank customer might be likely to buy.
Elad, originally of Israel, uses technology he calls
"pattern-based analytics." "We're just scratching the surface
of what can be done," he said…
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Gartner Identifies Next Generation Analytics as one of the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2012 |
Analysts Examine Latest Industry Trends During Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, October 16-20, in Orlando
Orlando, Fla., October 18, 2011—
Gartner, Inc. today highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2012. The analysts presented their findings during Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, being held here through October 20.
Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt. A strategic technology may be an existing technology that has matured and/or become suitable for a wider range of uses. It may also be an emerging technology that offers an opportunity for strategic business advantage for early adopters or with potential for significant market disruption in the next five years. These technologies impact the organization's long-term plans, programs and initiatives.
“These top 10 technologies will be strategic for most organizations, and IT leaders should use this list in their strategic planning process by reviewing the technologies and how they fit into their expected needs,” said David Cearley, vice president and Gartner fellow.
“Organizations should start exploratory projects to look at promised candidate technology and kick off a search for combinations of information sources, including social sites and unstructured data that may be mined for insights,” said Carl Claunch, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner.
Included in the top 10 list, and near and dear to Quantum Leap, is Next Generation Analytics. According to Gartner, Analytics is growing along three key dimensions:
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1.From traditional offline analytics to in-line embedded analytics. This has been the focus for many efforts in the past and will continue to be an important focus for analytics.
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2.From analyzing historical data to explain what happened to analyzing historical and real-time data from multiple systems to simulate and predict the future.
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3.Over the next three years, analytics will mature along a third dimension, from structured and simple data analyzed by individuals to analysis of complex information of many types (text, video, etc…) from many systems supporting a collaborative decision process that brings multiple people together to analyze, brainstorm and make decisions.
Analytics is also beginning to shift to the cloud and exploit cloud resources for high performance and grid computing.
In 2011 and 2012, analytics will increasingly focus on decisions and collaboration. The new step is to provide simulation, prediction, optimization and other analytics, not simply information, to empower even more decision flexibility at the time and place of every business process action.
Rick Bennett Joins Quantum Leap’s Board of Directors
Quantum Leap Innovations is extremely pleased to announce the addition of Rick Bennett to our Board of Directors. Mr. Bennett will also serve as a key advisor to the leadership team and will contribute to the development of the company’s business and operating plans as well as develop and guide the company's marketing strategy and execution.
"I have spent my entire professional life finding and mentoring companies with truly disruptive technologies," says Bennett, "I believe Quantum Leap's management has the horse power to make their unique and patentable Pattern-Based Analytics software into an industry on a par with those created by Oracle and Salesforce.com. I am honored that they would invite me to be on their team."
Rick Bennett was the one-man ad agency for Oracle, where in just six years he helped them expand from a $15 million sales year to their first billion-dollar sales year. He was also a driving force behind Salesforce.com’s pre-IPO assault on Siebel, and managed BIGFIX’s frontal assault against LANDesk, McAfee, Microsoft and Symantec. His client list includes numerous companies in the computer hardware, database, circuit design, education and artificial intelligence industries. Mr. Bennett, also a mathematician, is on the Safeguard Scientifics technology advisory board, and specializes in guerrilla warfare for early stage technology companies.
Quantum Leap Awarded Anti-Submarine Warfare SBIR
Quantum Leap Innovations has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research contract by the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) and will collaborate with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and Carnegie Mellon University to develop a novel two stage sequential mission planning framework for coordinated asset allocation and route planning in Anti-Submarine Warfare.
Quantum Leap Innovations' AutoNet Express Condition Based Maintenance software has been deployed on US Navy LCS 2 Fleet. The software has been deployed on LCS 1 since early 2009 and is currently being integrated on LCS 2 as part of a condition-based maintenance solution for hull, mechanical, and electrical (HM&E) systems. Equipment being monitored includes propulsion diesels, diesel generators, gas turbines, reduction gears, water jets, medium pressure air compressors, and chilled water air conditioner plants (18 units in all).
AutoNet Express capabilities include condition monitoring services, machine health assessment, and continuous anomaly detection of dominant equipment dynamic failure modes via live sensor data. It supports allowing users to monitor and track changes to the operating conditions of critical components and systems, which means trends can be detected and analyzed before an incident occurs. Even when a machine is in a functional state, the system can provide insight as to where operation can be improved.
Why Use AutoNet Express?
Bayesian reasoning, the technology upon which AutoNet Express is built, has proven valuable for knowledge-based data mining applications, and is based on a causal (explanation based) modeling framework. Relationships between variables in a Bayesian network are defined probabilistically, meaning trends can be detected and analyzed over a continuous scale, rather than in the Boolean fashion used in traditional rule-based systems.
AutoNet Express is a collection of software tools for developing and running probabilistic reasoning applications using Bayesian Belief Networks. Real-time data sources are integrated with these networks to predict or assess likely outcomes based on sensor measurements.
AutoNet Express helps enable early warning and failure diagnoses from equipment to fleet level, and is important in helping the Navy:
• Achieve reductions in manpower levels aboard LCS vessels
• Ascertain real-time knowledge vs. average lifetime of assets
• Provide a foundation for mission-readiness analysis
• Scale equipment monitoring systems from a single pump to entire systems
AutoNet Express has been incorporated into The DEI Group's asset management software solution. It is now deployed and in use by the US Navy to relate live sensor data to machine health. Furthermore, AutoNet Express has been licensed for several commercial deployments across the United States in a variety of industrial environments and applications.
Quantum Leap Innovations was awarded US Patent #7,720,779 for this innovative work on May 18, 2010.
Quantum Leap was been selected as one of 10 finalists to participate in the BluePrint Health IT Innovation Summit Mid-Atlantic Region held on Thursday, May 26, 2011 in Philadelphia, PA. Quantum Leap participated in the BluePrint Health IT Innovation Summit “speed-dating” sessions leading to two partnerships for each hospital and innovator.
The Health IT Innovation Matching System will evolve and improve through best practices and qualitative data as it moves through each stage of the program.
The BluePrint Health IT Innovation Summit Series is aligned with current innovation programs and initiatives sponsored by HHS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT promoting innovations and activities leading to meaningful use of health IT and health information exchange.
Quantum Leap attends First Annual CHS Gala
Quantum Leap attended the First Annual CHS Gala targeted to raise funds for renovations and construction of the health sciences complex on the University of Delaware Science and Technology Campus.
Gartner Selects Quantum Leap as Cool Vendor for 2011
Gartner announced their Cool Vendors for 2011 and Quantum Leap is proud to be included as a Cool Vendor in Life Sciences. Gartner cites the Quantum Leap Analyst family of products as the key factor in the decision. Per Gartner, the Quantum Leap products bring a new level of functionality and flexibility for Life Sciences research and development. Several of Quantum Leap early adopters have been in Healthcare and Life Sciences and these participants are reporting successful incorporation into existing protocols as well as greater insight and discovery into datasets previously analyzed with traditional techniques. Life Sciences is one of many industries currently evaluating Quantum Leap for its applicability and usefulness.
Full Article for Gartner members:
Cool Vendors in Life Sciences, 2011 22 Apr 2011 | ID: G00210958 | By Lefebure & Hagemeyer
Quantum Leap Sponsors University of Delaware Student Awards
Quantum Leap Innovations annually sponsors two Honors Awards within the University of Delaware Computer and Information Sciences department. The first award honors a Graduate student for his or her Excellence in Artificial Intelligence. The second award honors a Senior Undergraduate for Outstanding Achievement in Computer & Information Sciences. The ceremony is held each May as part of the University's Honors Day events. Two plaques listing the recipients are on display in the Department office to commemorate these awards. Our congratulations goes out to this year’s recipients who received their awards at the Honors Breakfast on May 14th.
Pattern-Based Analytics LinkedIn Group
Participate in lively discussions by joining the Pattern-Based Analytics LinkedIn Group at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Pattern-Based-Analytics-3789356?mostPopular=&gid=3789356
Quantum Leap’s Awarded a US Patent for Collaboration Portal
The Collaboration portal, is a scaleable method, system, and apparatus for providing computer-accessible benefits to communities of users, relates generally to the field of automated entity, data processing, system control, and data communications, and more specifically to an integrated method, system, and apparatus for providing computer-accessible benefits for communities of users. It provides a framework for provisioning computer-accessible benefits for communities of users, and can efficiently and robustly distribute the processing on behalf of those users over a decentralized network of computers. The field of the invention generally encompasses enabling appropriate and desired communication among communities of users and organizations, and providing information, goods, services, a works, opportunities, and connections among users and organizations..
The patent was issued in on February 15, 2011. The full patent can be accessed at the link below. Anyone interested in further discussing the patent and its potential applications should contact QLI at 800.636.LEAP or info@quantumleapinnovations.com
Full Patent: US 7,890,549 Elad et al
Quantum Leap Highlighted in the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
In an article published in the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, health expert Donald A. Donahue, DHEd, FACHE, calls for increased use of data mining and advanced analytics to detect emerging disease outbreaks. Dr. Donahue, program director for Health Policy and Preparedness at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, cited the functionality of QLI’s Quantum Leap simulation platform for infectious diseases as one of the most promising tools to enable earlier detection of natural outbreaks or bioterrorism incidents by examining readily available information. Citing increased frequency of new diseases and communicability before symptoms emerge, the article highlights that early detection is a critical step in preventing widespread death and illness. Quantum Leap can be used to analyze the consequences of a bioterrorist attack/disease outbreak and evaluate various contingency plans.
The article, “BioWatch and the Brown Cap” was published in the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Vol. 8 : Iss. 1, Article 5. To download full article for Free visit please visit Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and enter basic login information. Quantum Leap is highlighted on pages 8-9.
QLI presented “Quantum Leap Advanced Analytics for Warfighter Performance Assessment and Optimization” at the 2010 ONR Naval Science & Technology Partnership Conference. Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, VA.
The Office of Naval Research collaborates and partners with the brightest minds in science and technology to advance the Navy and Marine Corps advantage in the field. The 2010 ONR Naval Science and Technology Partnership Conference provides a venue for laying the foundation for many of those partnerships.
Quantum Leap Awarded SBIR in the area of Human Performance Assessment and Prediction
Quantum Leap Innovations has been awarded a Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and will collaborate with the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Simulation and Training to develop embeddable, pluggable and configurable agents for real-time cognitive readiness and performance assessment.
Gartner Identifies Next Generation Analytics as one of the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2011
Analysts Examine Latest Industry Trends During Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, October 17-21, in Orlando
STAMFORD, Conn., October 19, 2010 —
Gartner, Inc. today highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2011. The analysts presented their findings during Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, being held here through October 21.
Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt.
A strategic technology may be an existing technology that has matured and/or become suitable for a wider range of uses. It may also be an emerging technology that offers an opportunity for strategic business advantage for early adopters or with potential for significant market disruption in the next five years. As such, these technologies impact the organization's long-term plans, programs and initiatives.
“Companies should factor these top 10 technologies in their strategic planning process by asking key questions and making deliberate decisions about them during the next two years,” said David Cearley, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner.
“Sometimes the decision will be to do nothing with a particular technology,” said Carl Claunch, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. “In other cases, it will be to continue investing in the technology at the current rate. In still other cases, the decision may be to test or more aggressively deploy the technology.”
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Next Generation Analytics. Increasing compute capabilities of computers including mobile devices along with improving connectivity are enabling a shift in how businesses support operational decisions. It is becoming possible to run simulations or models to predict the future outcome, rather than to simply provide backward looking data about past interactions, and to do these predictions in real-time to support each individual business action. While this may require significant changes to existing operational and business intelligence infrastructure, the potential exists to unlock significant improvements in business results and other success rates.
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Full Press Release: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1454221
Gartner Symposium ITXPO 2010
QLI participated in the Gartner Symposium ITXPO 2010 in Orlando Florida on October 17-21, 2010. The Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the industry's only event to deliver the insights, tools and relationships necessary to create, validate and execute transformative business technology strategies.
International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases
QLI attended the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases at The Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, GA. The conference brings together public health professionals to encourage the exchange of scientific and public health information on global emerging infectious disease issues. July 11-13, 2010
Quantum Leap Awarded a US Patent for Extensible Bayesian Network Editor with Inferencing Capabilities
The Extensible Bayesian Inferencing Network (EBIN) is a system for the representation, editing, evaluation, and inference of graphical models is disclosed which can be used to construct and evaluate a graphical model or graphical network and to calculate inference values. An efficient method of updating graphical models is demonstrated, and provides the basis for an improved system for manipulation and evaluation of probabilistic models. The graphical network editor is useful in the construction of graphical modes such as Bayesian Networks. The graphical network and network graphical user interface (GUI) are used in conjunction with each other to model a system wherein failure probabilities and the current state of components are taken into account to monitor the health and progress of a system for an engineer or engineering software to evaluate and monitor. The evaluation is useful in the monitoring of assets and other real systems having multiple, dependent, and independently operating components such as a pump, a manufacturing plant, a production line, an assembly line, where asset health and quality control is a concern. The asset components each influencing some overall outcome of a system or situation. Success or failure or probability of success, probability of failure and health of the system can be monitored and manipulated by altering the values of prior probability and posterior probability values. Failure correlation between components can be evaluated wherein failure rates of asset is unknown. Production and quality can be monitored and altered.
The EBIN patent was issued in on May 18, 2010. The full patent can be accessed at the link below. Anyone interested in further discussing the patent and its potential applications should contact QLI at 800.636.LEAP or info@quantumleap.us
Full Patent: US 7,720,779 Perry et al
Navy League Sea Air Space 2010
QLI showcased at the Navy League Sea Air Space 2010: The Latest National and International Sea Power Technology and Development being held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, MD. May 3-5, 2010.
Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation DEVS’10
Dr. Bin Yu presented Agent-Based Stochastic Simulations of Shipboard Disease Outbreaks at DEVS'10: 2010 Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation - DEVS Integrative M&S Symposium at the Florida Mall Hotel and Conference Center, Orlando, FL . April 11-15, 2010
Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, & Prediction
Dr. Bin Yu presented Gryphon: A Hybrid Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation Platform for Infectious Diseases at SBP10: 2010 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, & Prediction at the Natcher Conference Center, NIH Main Campus, Bethesda, MD. March 30-31, 2010.
Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Conference
Dr. Dawn Defenbaugh presented Rapid Configuration of Advanced, Agent-based Decision-Support Technology for Tactical–Strategic Disaster Planning at NMCPHC: The Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center’s 49th Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Conference, Hampton Roads Convention Center, Hampton, VA. March 19-25, 2010.
Quantum Leap’s Digital Marketplace Engine Awarded a US Patent
The Digital Marketplace Engine (DME) is a method for finding the best match between buyers (or buyers consortiums) and sellers (or sellers consortiums), by a set of software intermediaries, and for using the information developed in those matches to define monetary and performance commitments between parties, and to create fair distribution of the benefits of the agreement among the respective participants. The system solves three related optimization problems concurrently: the optimal aggregation of individual buyers into buyers consortiums; the optimal aggregation of individual sellers into sellers consortiums, and the optimal match of requirements, posed by the buyers consortium, to offers, posed by the sellers consortium.
The DME patent was awarded on March 31, 2009. The full patent can be accessed via the link below.
Anyone interested in further discussing the DME patent and its potential applications should contact QLI at 800.636.LEAP or info@quantumleap.us
Full Patent: US 7,512,558 Elad et al
Quantum Leap’s Knowledge Extraction Engine Awarded a US Patent
The Knowledge Extraction Engine (KEE) is a scaleable automatic method of using multiple techniques to generate models and combinations of models from data and prior knowledge. The system provides unprecedented ease of use in that many of the choices of technique and parameters are explored automatically by the system, without burdening the user, and provides scaleable learning over distributed processors to achieve speed and data-handling capacity to satisfy the most demanding requirements.
The R&D that led to the invention of the KEE was part of the Integrated Biological and Chemical Warfare Defense (IBCWD) program performed under contract to the United States Office of Naval Research (Contract N00014-02-C-0320). Initiated in the wake of the Anthrax attacks of October 2001, the objective of the IBCWD program was to develop an intelligent software platform to fuse, analyze, and reason on data generated by sensors and other inputs to provide decision-support for biological and chemical defense. The technology described in the KEE patent resulted from the successful completion of work on the ONR contract and paved the way for continuation contracts. QLI have since successfully completed several ONR contracts in over seven years of continuous successful work in partnership with ONR technologists.
The KEE patent was awarded January 20, 2009, it provides a generalizable technology that can be applied in many domains. The full patent can be accessed via the link below.
Anyone interested in further discussing the KEE patent and its potential applications should contact QLI at 800.636.LEAP or info@quantumleap.us
Full Patent: US 7,480,640 Elad et al.
Gartner Identifies Advanced Analytics as the #2 of Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010
Gartner, Inc. analysts today highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2010. The analysts presented their findings during Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, being held here through October 22.
Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt.
These technologies impact the organization's long-term plans, programs and initiatives. They may be strategic because they have matured to broad market use or because they enable strategic advantage from early adoption.
“Companies should factor the top 10 technologies into their strategic planning process by asking key questions and making deliberate decisions about them during the next two years,” said David Cearley, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. “However, this does not necessarily mean adoption and investment in all of the technologies. They should determine which technologies will help and transform their individual business initiatives.”
The top 10 strategic technologies for 2010 include:
Cloud Computing. Cloud computing is a style of computing that characterizes a model in which providers deliver a variety of IT-enabled capabilities to consumers. Cloud-based services can be exploited in a variety of ways to develop an application or a solution. Using cloud resources does not eliminate the costs of IT solutions, but does re-arrange some and reduce others. In addition, consuming cloud services enterprises will increasingly act as cloud providers and deliver application, information or business process services to customers and business partners.
Advanced Analytics. Optimization and simulation is using analytical tools and models to maximize business process and decision effectiveness by examining alternative outcomes and scenarios, before, during and after process implementation and execution. This can be viewed as a third step in supporting operational business decisions. Fixed rules and prepared policies gave way to more informed decisions powered by the right information delivered at the right time, whether through customer relationship management (CRM) or enterprise resource planning (ERP) or other applications. The new step is to provide simulation, prediction, optimization and other analytics, not simply information, to empower even more decision flexibility at the time and place of every business process action. The new step looks into the future, predicting what can or will happen.
Full Press Release: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1210613
‘Gryphon’ Software Driving Innovative Technologies for Quantum Leap
The innovative ideas that Quantum Leap has developed for ‘hybrid modeling and simulation’ are now being consolidated in the form of Gryphon software. The name derives from the hybrid nature of the software approach and recognizes the mythical Gryphon a hybrid bird - animal.
The Gryphon software will form the basis of the move by Quantum Leap to focus on health care and life sciences. The innovative Gryphon technology provides the flexible software capabilities necessary to support the ever increasing scientific and medical advances in the target domains.
The Gryphon trademark was granted on January 27, 2009 and provides a registered trademark for Gryphon® as related to “computer software for representing, maintaining, adapting, evaluating, and analyzing models of biological systems.”
The initial IP filings, in the United States and through the Patent Cooperation Treaty, were published on February 26, 2009 covering “Scalable, computationally-efficient and rapid simulation suited to decision support, analysis and planning.” This IP is targeted at gaining patent protection for the Gryphon® innovative hybrid modeling approach that Quantum Leap has used in several projects with the US Government where the target was modeling of infectious disease. The Gryphon® software provides a flexible simulation engine that has been applied in modeling and simulation work by Quantum Leap that includes:
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■Pandemic Influenza (PI) – with US Northern Command who are the designated DOD Global Synchronizer for PI Response.
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■PI, Avian Flu and Seasonal Influenza – with Pacific Command in a multi-national exercise (Cobra Gold ’08).
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■Endemic Diseases (Cholera, Pneumonia, Malaria, and Hepatitis A) – with US Marine Forces, Pacific in support of Operation Caring Response.
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■Shipboard Diseases (PI and Norovirus) – with US Navy Sea Command (NAVSEA) and the US Navy Bureau of Medicine (BUMED).
(All of these examples of the use of Gryphon® are explained in more detail with downloadable information elsewhere on our web site).
Anyone interested in further discussing the Gryphon® technology and its potential applications should contact QLI at 800.636.LEAP or info@quantumleap.us
Patent Application: US 2009/0055150 A1 Prior et al.
Quantum Leap will Participate and Demonstrate Technology at Fleet Week – New York
Quantum Leap Health Sciences (QLHS) has been selected by the US Navy to demonstrate our Shipboard Disease Decision Tool (SDDT) at Navy Fleet Week in New York City this May. The Navy, via the Office of Naval Research has requested that QLHS demonstrate some of the key technologies that are being developed to help protect the health of Sailors and Marines. The demonstrations of the SDDT are open to all Fleet Week attendees including the public and will be held aboard the USS Iwo Jima each day during the course of the week in which the US Navy will have several ships in New York City and available for tour by the public.
SDDT is based on Quantum Leap’s Gryphon® software, and is a disease course of action analysis and planning tool that is designed to help medical personnel prepare for disease outbreaks aboard ship. SDDT allows ship medical personnel, within minutes, to simulate disease outbreaks and the impact of pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions on the spread of the disease. The rapid runtime and highly configurable nature of the model allow the ships medical personnel to quickly test multiple courses of action and then decide on the best series of steps to take to mitigate the impact of the disease on the ship’s crew and other personnel.
For additional details on Gryphon or SDDT please feel free to download, view, or print our brochures (Gryphon, SDDT). Fleet Week provides an opportunity for the public to witness first hand the latest capabilities of today’s Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard and includes displays and demonstrations. The Fleet Week Web site can be viewed at http://www.cnrma.navy.mil/fleetweek/ for further details and a schedule of events. We look forward to seeing you there.
Quantum Leap Health Sciences Supports Pandemic Efforts by the Department of Homeland Security
Quantum Leap Health Sciences (QLHS) has been selected to work with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to help prepare the nation for any future pandemic influenza outbreak. The contract involves QLHS experts supporting outreach by DHS to the critical infrastructure and key resource (CI/KR) sectors of the nation’s industrial base (See http://www.pandemicflu.gov/plan/pdf/cikrpandemicinfluenzaguide.pdf and http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/nipp_annrpt.pdf ). The QLHS expertise on pandemic influenza will be provided in a series of webinars to help to guide the national preparedness efforts and pandemic responses. This effort continues the work of QLHS on pandemic preparedness that began almost 3 years ago and which has led to many national and international publications and presentations.
Assessment of National Preparedness Released
Quantum Leap Health Sciences President, Steve Prior, recently authored the assessment of national preparedness for a future pandemic influenza outbreak. The report was published by the National Governors Association (NGA) (See http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.6c9a8a9ebc6ae07eee28aca9501010a0/?vgnextoid=0beba402a9b6c110VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD ) and is the second report published by Dr. Prior based on his work with the NGA that included workshops and exercises with all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the US Territories. The workshops were requested by Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt following his reading of the Pandemic Primer that Dr. Prior wrote for NGA in which he recommended nationwide exercises to assess regional and state responses (http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/0607PANDEMICPRIMER.PDF ).
In the 14 month program Dr. Prior and the NGA team journeyed across the nation and facilitated sessions with state preparedness experts and others state representatives. The workshops had Federal attendees from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) as well as the designated national coordinators for pandemic preparedness. A review by the sponsors concluded that “This is an excellent document that will draw attention to both the accomplishments and needs of pandemic influenza preparedness.” Copies of both of the reports and the Pandemic Primer can be downloaded at:
http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/0802PANDEMICASSESSMENT.PDF (Interim)
http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/0809PANDEMICASSESSMENT.PDF (Final)
Gryphon Software used in Multinational Exercise
At the request of US Pacific Command (PACOM) the Gryphon software that was developed by Quantum Leap Innovations (QLI) technologists was used to support a multi-national exercise in May of this year. The exercise – Cobra Gold ’08 – is the latest in a series of exercises (http://www1.apan-info.net/cobragold/Home/tabid/2809/Default.aspx ) conducted by PACOM to support potential future operations in their area of responsibility (AOR) which is focused on the Pacific Rim (See http://www.pacom.mil/about/about.shtml ).
The latest exercise included an influenza outbreak that was modeled and simulated using the Gryphon™ software to support course of action analysis and planning. The software was updated daily with the decisions of the exercise participants and was then used to inform them of how the disease was spreading and the extent of human transmission, morbidity and deaths. The software was well received and was considered to have ‘sufficient military utility’ that a request was made to develop a deployable version to support the real crisis in the PACOM AOR that resulted from Cyclone Nargis making landfall in Myanmar (see below).
Gryphon Software and Operation Caring Response – Cyclone Nargis
Following the successful demonstration of the Gryphon software at the multi-national pandemic exercise Cobra Gold ’08 (see above) Quantum Leap Health Sciences (QLHS) was requested by Marine Forces Pacific (MARFORPAC) to develop a deployable version of the software to support DoD Operation Caring Response (OCR) which was mounted after Myanmar was devastated by Cyclone Nargis. The program was supported by funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and in a tremendous effort by the company an initial revision of the Gryphon software was generated in 3 weeks and the full version delivered in just 8 weeks.
The work included modifying the Gryphon™ software to map Myanmar and its borders, the civilian and refugee populations, the international response teams, and four new diseases. The resultant software was capable of providing course of action analysis and planning for operations in recovery after the cyclone and included data updates from the World Health organization (WHO). The new Gryphon capability extends the potential use of the software to a wide range of infectious diseases and future DoD humanitarian and crisis response operations. QLHS, in partnership with ONR, is exploring how this new capability can be best applied to the challenges encountered by U.S. military forces during future operations.
Quantum Leap Innovations Wins Phase 2 Contract with Department of Homeland Security
Following the successful completion of the work on Phase 1 of the Unified Incident Command & Decision Support (UICDS) program Quantum Leap Innovations (QLI) teamed with SAIC to bid on the Phase 2 program and are pleased to announce the contract was awarded to the QLI/SAIC team. UICDS is being developed by the DHS Science & Technology Directorate and is targeted at improving the coordination and response to incidents involving state and federal cooperation i.e. ‘incidents of national significance.’
The UICDS technology will enable the nation to seamlessly build (and degrade) the incident command system and resources used to support critical incidents. In the wake of the experiences with Hurricane Katrina the importance of such a capability is clear to all. QLI will provide critically important ‘intelligent agents’ capabilities in UICDS, the work will build on other successful efforts by the company in similar programs. The innovative software will be tested in DHS-designated cities and if successful will be deployed nationally to support the DHS and their federal partners.
Shipboard Disease Modeling
Working with the Office of Naval Research (ONR) the Quantum Leap Innovations and Quantum Leap Health Sciences technologists have continued the development of their Shipboard Disease & Decision Support Tool (SDDT). The SDDT is based on the Gryphon simulation and modeling software and provides modeling of diseases onboard ships and supports mitigation and response for the diseases to sustain mission-critical operations.
The SDDT was presented at the 16th Annual Medical Services Corps conference and received an commendation for an ‘outstanding contribution.’ The poster that was used at the conference is provided here: Development of a Shipboard Disease Decision-Support Tool. The SDDT continues to be developed with ONR with a view to transitioning to the US Navy fleet and the US Marine Corps.
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