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Personal Information
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- In 1995, he was the first lecturer in dimensional data modeling and evaluating OLAP systems at the Data Warehousing Institute (now TDWI).
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- Appointed Chairman of Advisory Board to Sandia National Laboratories overseeing information management and software engineering for the Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Stewardship and Nuclear Waste Management initiatives.
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- Member of the Boulder Business Intelligence Brain Trust (BBBT)
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- Keynote speaker at dozens of events in North America, Europe and Asia
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Neil Raden is a VP and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, Inc. focusing on Big Data, Analytics, Decision Management and Business Intelligence. When it comes to the application of information for solving business problems, Neil Raden is an “industry influencer” – followed by technology providers, technology users, consultants, venture capitalists/private equity firms and even other industry analysts. His insight into the needs of organizations and capabilities of technology are derived from years of devising approaches and conceiving working systems. He is the founder of Hired Brains, a provider of consulting and implementation services in business intelligence and analytics to many Global 2000 companies. He began his career as a Property & Casualty actuary with AIG in New York before moving into predictive analytics services, software engineering, and systems integration with experience in delivering environments for decision making in fields as diverse as health care to nuclear waste management to cosmetics marketing and many others in between. He is the co-author of the book “Smart (Enough) Systems: How to Deliver Competitive Advantage by Automating Hidden Decisions.” In 1995, Raden's first in a series of feature articles appeared in InformationWeek, followed by dozens of others in magazines and journals. In 1998, he formed Hired Brains Magazine, a high-end monthly for professional consultants. Neil’s blogs appear at InformationWeek, SmartDataCollective and B-Eye-Network. He is a regular contributor to expert sites such as LinkedIn Groups, Focus, Quora and eBizQ. Neil was also an early Wikipedia editor and administrator in areas of technology, health care and mathematics.
INDUSTRY RECOGNITION
BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE Neil has decades of experience in implementing analytical systems. In 1985, he started Archer Decision Sciences as a consulting company providing advanced quantitative expertise and decision support system design and implementation services in the financial services, telecom, pharmaceutical, consumer products, insurance, manufacturing and utilities industries, to organizations such as Pepsi, Merck, Warner-Lambert, AlliedSignal, United Telecom, Sprint, Dun & Bradstreet, C|Net, ABB, Premier Healthcare, Chubb, Estee Lauder, GE, and many others. In 1991, Archer was one of the first to develop large-scale (at that time) data warehouses and business intelligence environments and he took a leading role in training, speaking and publishing in the field. In 2003, Hired Brains as an implementation company was disbanded and Neil moved into a role as industry analyst, publishing over 40 white papers, hundreds of articles, blogs and research reports. Raden attended Webster College (now Webster University) in St. Louis, and received a B.A. in Mathematics with additional advanced study in mathematics and economics at Washington University and the New York University Graduate School of Business (since renamed the Stern School of Business).