Guide to Exhibits

Alpine Data Labs Booth #118
Alpine Chorus is the world’s first collaborative, scalable and visual solution for Advanced Analytics on Big Data and Hadoop. With Alpine, data scientists, business analysts and executives can work with large data sets, develop and collaborate on models at scale without having to ever use code, download software or move data. Leaders in all industries, from Financial Services to Healthcare, use Alpine to outsmart their competition

Booz Allen Hamilton Booth #109
Booz Allen Hamilton is a leading provider of management consulting, technology, and engineering services to the US government in defense, intelligence, and civil markets, and to major corporations, institutions, and not-for-profit organizations. Booz Allen is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, employs approximately 23,000 people, and had revenue of $5.76 billion for the 12 months ended March 31, 2013. In 2014, Booz Allen celebrates its 100th anniversary year. To learn more, visit www.boozallen.com. (NYSE: BAH)

Contact Singapore Booth #104
Contact Singapore is an alliance of the Singapore Economic Development Board and Ministry of Manpower. We engage overseas Singaporeans and global talent to work, invest and live in Singapore. Contact Singapore actively links Singapore-based employers with professionals to support the growth of our key industries. We work with investors to realise their business and investment interests in Singapore. For information on working, investing and living in Singapore, please visit www.contactsingapore.sg or contact our worldwide offices.

Enrich Consulting Booth #102
Enrich was born out of a restless desire to help companies do more—create more game-changing technology, develop more life-saving drugs, find more opportunity. Our emphasis is on building self-sufficient business forecasting software for our clients, based on customized analytic solutions. The Enrich Analytics Platform (EAP) provides the enterprise computing power; our high-touch, one-on-one approach builds the custom solutions that empower clients to make strategic business decisions— and follow through on them.

Exponent®, Inc. Booth #116
Exponent is a leading engineering and scientific consulting firm providing solutions to complex technical problems. Our multidisciplinary organization of engineers, scientists, physicians, and business consultants addresses complicated issues facing industry and government today. Exponent’s staff has extensive experience in advanced analytics techniques and the application of these methods to a wide range of applied and research studies, including clinical investigations, epidemiologic studies, public health evaluations, health economics analyses, and other outcomes research. Exponent has a full-time staff of over 900 located in 25 international offices. Exponent is certified to ISO 9001 and is authorized by the GSA to provide professional engineering services.

FICO Booth #108 & 110
FICO is a leading analytics software company, helping businesses around the world make better decisions that drive higher levels of growth, profitability and customer satisfaction. FICO’s analytic tools, which include FICO® Model Builder and FICO® Xpress Optimization Suite, provide functionality to turn Big Data into better decisions. FICO's analytics capabilities are now available on the FICO® Analytic Cloud and the FICO® Decision Management Platform, an easy, cost- effective way to evaluate, customize, deploy and scale state-of-the-art analytics and decision management solutions. Learn more at www.fico.com/Xpress. FICO: Make every decision count™.

Forio Booth #111
High performance predictive analytics with the Forio analytics platform. Put interactive analyses within the hands of decision-makers with online analytic applications that let users change assumptions and instantly see results through their web browsers. With the Forio Analytics Platform, you can develop models in Julia (a new, high-performance technical computing language with capabilities similar to R and MATLAB) or other languages, import data and formulas from Excel, and enable users to share and compare scenarios online. The Forio Analytics Platform combines sophisticated analysis, universal accessibility via online data visualizations, and centralized model with secure access.

Frontline Systems, Inc. Booth #106
See the new release of Analytic Solver Platform, introduced at this conference – the surprisingly easy, lightning-fast, surprisingly powerful integrated analytics software from Excel Solver developer Frontline Systems, the company that’s democratizing analytics. See Solver SDK Platform and Solver Server, your fastest, most flexible path to Web deployment of your own analytics applications. Learn how little this costs, and how quickly you can create data visualizations, data mining and forecasting models, simulation and risk analysis models, and conventional and stochastic optimization models in Microsoft Excel or your favorite programming language, from C++, C# and Java to PHP and JavaScript. Take home a CD with full-power versions of our tools, and free trial licenses.

INFORMS Near Registration
INFORMS is offering complementary print issues of our member magazine OR/MS Today and our online publication Analytics, as well as our 13 scholarly journals including Interfaces and our online-only journal Service Science. Attendees can also purchase books, CDs, tutorials, and INFORMS t-shirts. Information is available on INFORMS Certification, Continuing Education, Subdivisions, Awards, Meetings, Publications, and Memberships. Come by the booth to speak to an INFORMS representative about our programs and products.

Northwestern University Master of Science in Analytics Booth #115
The Master of Science in Analytics program at Northwestern University is a full-time, 15-month professional master’s degree that immerses students in a comprehensive and applied curriculum exploring the underlying data science, information technology and business of analytics. Supplemented by an internship placement and industry supplied projects, graduates will be exceptionally well equipped to harness and communicate the full value of data to the organizations they serve.

Number Analytics Booth #120
"Statistics? P-value, t-value, chi-square? What are they and how should I use them?” You don't need to fully understand these concepts any more to analyze numbers. Statistical results are interpreted automatically in English and are visualized with colorful graphs. One of the first cloud based statistical software built for business people. It works on iOS, Android, PC, Mac, and Linux and it will let you customize predictive analytics easily. Integrating an predictive application into your website will take several days instead of months. You can do advanced marketing analytics such as new product diffusion, customer churn analysis, and customer lifetime value calculation. Easy to use, easier to understand and fast to implement!

ProbabilityManagement.org Booth #107
Non-profit ProbabilityManagement.org promotes standards for communicating uncertainties through arrays of big data known as SIPs (Stochastic Information Packets).
SIPs are:
• Actionable - may be used directly in Excel to perform thousands of Monte Carlo trials before your finger leaves the <Enter> key using only the Data Table command.
• Additive - may be aggregated across platforms across the enterprise.
• Auditable - are represented as unambiguous data with provenance.
Packages such as Crystal Ball, @Risk, Risk Solver, Matlab, R, and SAS may be leveraged through shared stochastic libraries using the open SIPmath™ standard. Visit SIPmath.org for videos and Excel demo models.

Provalis Research Booth #113
Provalis Research is a leading developer of text analytics software with ground-breaking qualitative and quantitative analysis programs, such as QDA Miner, an innovative mixed-methods qualitative data analysis software; WordStat, a powerful add-on module for computer assisted content analysis and text mining; and Simstat, an easy yet powerful statistical software. One of the most distinctive features of these tools is their interoperability, allowing researchers to integrate numerical and textual data into a single project file and to seamlessly move back and forth between quantitative and qualitative data analysis, as well as to easily explore relationships between numerical and textual data. Visit www.provalisresearch.com.

SAS Booth #112 & 114
What if you could use big data to make faster, more precise decisions – while your competitors are still running analyses? No matter the size or complexity of your data demands, high-performance analytics simply outperforms traditional computing methods. SAS provides several high-performance distributed processing options: in-memory, in-database and grid computing. Plus, you can seamlessly explore, visualize and model big data stored in open-source platforms like Hadoop.
Visit sas.com/bigdata to learn how you can:
• Gain faster, more profitable insights into your business.
• Analyze and model data with domain-specific analytics.
• Deploy a scalable analytics infrastructure.
• Optimize the use of your IT resources.

ThoughtSpot Booth #122
ThoughtSpot is solving the "last mile" problem for business data in enterprises. ThoughtSpot Data Search Appliance enables on-the-fly access and analysis of data at enterprise scale. The ThoughtSpot founders have previously built the fastest-growing enterprise tech company of the last decade, Nutanix, and also market-defining search and analytics technologies at companies such as Google, Yahoo and Oracle. Founded in 2012, ThoughtSpot is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

UCLA Anderson Master of Financial Engineering Program Booth #100
The UCLA Anderson Master of Financial Engineering (MFE) Program equips graduates with skills required to succeed in careers in quantitative finance and data analytics. Companies in financial services and technology are increasingly looking for employees with data science skillset. Our one-year specialized degree meets that need by providing our students with a rigorous educational experience that blends mathematical and statistical modelling skills, computational expertise, and finance theory. Our program is based on the business school paradigm of merging theory and principle with up-to-the-minute business practice – so that our graduates can immerse themselves in a rewarding career immediately upon graduation.

For questions about exhibit logistics, hours, booth furnishings, etc., contact Megan Carroll, INFORMS, megan.carroll@informs.org.