Frustrated forecasters in most industries are currently confronted with huge uncertainties in today’s tough business climate. In the face of much change, forecasts and their underlying planning processes need to be more in-sync than ever before.

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Predictive Analytics World covers hot topics and advanced methods such as social data, uplift modeling (net lift), text mining, massively parallel analytics, in-cloud deployment, and innovative applications that benefit organizations in new and creative ways.

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Autobox has introduced an accompanying product called "Mixed Level Suite". The need to forecast interval data (ie hourly, semi-hourly) requires a unique approach to capture cyclicality and events while still trying to model the intraday variations that change during the week.

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As the competition in markets for products and services continue to become more intense, it is imperative for organizations to improve their attempts to plan for the future (Smith & McIntyre, 1994). One of the tools that organizations use to plan for their futures is the sales forecast.

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In this issue we have Forecasting electricity spot market prices, GDP nowcasting with ragged-edge data, Forecasting Realized Volatility, Forecasting Macroeconomic Time Series With Locally Adaptive Signal Extraction, Estimation and forecasting in large datasets and more.

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Aberdeen Group announced its latest report, "Demand Management: Enabling Sell Side Collaboration to Improve Sales Revenue." This study highlights the specific approaches that companies with different types of supply chains need to adopt with respect to demand management.

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Rent-A-Center, the largest US rent-to-own operator, has implemented a returns forecasting solution in several hundred stores and is continuing to roll out across the retailer’s chain of nearly 3,000 stores nationwide.

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In this issue we have Economic Evaluation of Volatility, Evaluating ensemble density combination - forecasting GDP and inflation, Forecasting long memory time series under a break in persistence, Loss Functions and Ranking Forecasting Performances of Multivariate Volatility Models, and more.

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Are you at risk from a large, damaging earthquake? A new online tool developed by OpenHazards Group quickly estimates the chances of a future earthquake and how much property damage it will do in any time period, anywhere in the world.

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Will 2010 be the most challenging year to forecast and plan for in history? We have heard a lot of supply chain professionals say something along those lines to me over the past few months – and with good reason, says Dan Gilmore, editor-in-chief of the Supply Chain Digest.

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