December 29, 2011		Mu Sigma Lands Big Money For Big Data In one of the largest investments yet in a data analytics company, Mu Sigma has raised an additional $108 million to help its dozens of Fortune 500 clients make sense of the vast amounts of data being produced online.
December 28, 2011		General Atlantic, Sequoia Invest $108 Million in Analytics Firm Mu Sigma Mu Sigma, a company that helps businesses make decisions by analyzing data, attracted a $108 million investment, the largest round of private-equity financing in the analytic-services industry.
December 28, 2011		Mu Sigma offers $108M reasons to believe in big data Chicago-based big data firm Mu Sigma has closed a $108 million private-equity investment round to expand its analytics-outsourcing business.
December 28, 2011		'Big Data' Giant Mu Sigma Raises $108 Million From General Atlantic, Sequoia Mu Sigma, a provider of analytics and data-driven decision support services for enterprise customers, has raised $108 million in funding in a round led by growth equity firm General Atlantic.
December 28, 2011		Mu Sigma raises big money for big data Mu Sigma, a profitable provider of "big data" analytics and decision-support services to large companies, today announced that it has raised $108 million in private equity funding.
December 28, 2011		General Atlantic closes USD 108-mn investment in Mu Sigma Mu Sigma, a provider of analytics and decision support services to global enterprise customers, today said that it has closed a USD 108-million investment round led by General Atlantic. "General Atlantic brings a global perspective, experience and relationships that will be very valuable to our growth globally.
December 28, 2011		Mu Sigma raises $108 mn from Sequoia, General Atlantic Mu Sigma, which has most of its employees based in a centre in Bangalore, has raised $108 million in an investment round led by General Atlantic Llc in what may be the biggest private equity (PE) investment outside the West in an analytics services company.
December 28, 2011		Data cruncher Mu Sigma nets $108 million in new capital Who needs an IPO? Mu Sigma Inc., a Northbrook-based analytics startup, raised $108 million from investors. Backers were led by General Atlantic, a Greenwich, Conn.-based private-equity fund, and included Silicon Valley venture fund Sequoia Capital. Sequoia put $25.8 million into Mu Sigma in June.
December 28, 2011		Is Mu Sigma the new wunderkind of outsourcing? A little-known analytics firm has snagged $108 million (Rs 580 crore) in funding from two of private equity's most venerable names, marking itself out as India's newest rising star in the outsourcing business.
December 28, 2011		Data analytics firm Mu Sigma raises $108 million Mu Sigma, a Northbrook-based firm that helps companies analyze massive amounts of data, said Wednesday it raised $108 million in fresh capital.
December 28, 2011		Mu Sigma raises $108M to grow its big data services Mu Sigma helps big companies across several industries — including many Fortune 500 companies — manage massive amounts of online data by translating it into analytics and digestible observations. The new funding is one of the largest raised by a big data startup.
December 28, 2011		Mu Sigma Closes $108 Million Investment Round, Led by Global Growth Investor General Atlantic Mu Sigma, the largest pure-play provider of analytics and decision support services for global enterprise customers, announced today that it has closed a $108 million investment round led by General Atlantic.
December 28, 2011		Mu Sigma raises $108 million equity fund Leading analytics firm Mu Sigma Wednesday raised $108 million (Rs.573 crore) from private equity firm General Atlantic and venture firm Sequoia Capital in its second round of investment.
December 28, 2011		Mu Sigma raises $108 million equity fund Leading analytics firm Mu Sigma Wednesday raised $108 million (Rs.573 crore) from private equity firm General Atlantic and venture firm Sequoia Capital in its second round of investment.
December 28, 2011		Mu Sigma raises $108 million equity fund Leading analytics firm Mu Sigma Wednesday raised $108 million (Rs.573 crore) from private equity firm General Atlantic and venture firm Sequoia Capital in its second round of investment.
December 28, 2011		Mu Sigma Closes $108 Million Investment Round, Led by Global Growth Investor General Atlantic Mu Sigma, the largest pure-play provider of analytics and decision support services for global enterprise customers, announced today that it has closed a $108 million investment round led by General Atlantic
December 28, 2011		General Atlantic closes USD 108-mn investment in Mu Sigma Mu Sigma, a provider of analytics and decision support services to global enterprise customers, today said that it has closed a USD 108-million investment round led by General Atlantic.
December 28, 2011		Analytics firm Mu Sigma raises $108 million in investment from GA In one of the largest private equity deals for a business analytics firm, seven year old start-up firm Mu Sigma has landed $108 million in an investment round led by General Atlantic (GA).
December 28, 2011		Mu Sigma Scores $108 Million for Big Data One of the by-products of the information age is, well, more information. And big data analyst Mu Sigma has raised $108 million in Series C funding to help some of the world's biggest corporations make sense of that new information, according to the Wall Street Journal.
December 28, 2011		Mu Sigma "Is Doing The Math Alright" Closes $108 Million Investment Round, Led by Global Growth Investor General Atlantic Mu Sigma, the largest pure-play provider of analytics and decision support services for global enterprise customers, announced today that it has closed a $108 million investment round led by General Atlantic.
December 28, 2011		General Atlantic Leads $108M Round In Indian Data Company Mu Sigma Chicago and Bangalore-based data analytics firm Mu Sigma has raised $108 million in an investment round led by General Atlantic. This is believed to be the biggest private equity investment made till date in the emerging market for analytics services, and follows Mu Sigma's April round of $25 million, led by Sequoia Capital.
December 27, 2011		5 Common Mistakes People Make in the Name of Statistical Analysis With the advent of data analytics and decision sciences, our decisions are being increasingly impacted by these errors, which can result in major implications for our business.
December 19, 2011		Marketers Brace for the Tsunami of Big Data The flood of Big Data has left many marketers adrift in a sea of information, often lacking the acumen necessary to navigate their way to actionable insight. Here are three data challenges marketers face and how to overcome them.
December 16, 2011		Spread the word: Math is the new sexiness in IT If you go to an eighth grader and ask them how many want to be applied mathematicians, not many hands will go up." So says Dhiraj Rajaram, founder and CEO of Mu Sigma, a Chicago-based startup providing analytics (or "decision sciences" as the company calls it) as a service to a large pool of Fortune 500 customers. He's probably right, and that's a problem.
December 9, 2011		Mix art, science for max results in your biz In the years to come, decision sciences and analytics services will assume a greater role in offering better data-driven solutions to companies, says Dhiraj C. Rajaram, founder CEO of Mu Sigma
December, 2011		Data scientists set to move center stage in BI world When business intelligence (BI) systems first surfaced, their main objective was to empower the business to make insightful decisions and be completely self servicing.
December, 2011		40 Under 40: How They Unwind Sometimes we all need to break away and think about something other than work. Find out how the members of the 40 Under 40 Class of 2011 spend their off hours and recharge their mental batteries.
November 23, 2011		Analyzing Biz In 2004, when he was 28, Dhiraj Rajaram decided to quit his job with consultancy firm Booz Allen Hamilton in the US, sell his house in Chicago and use the money to establish a data analytics company.
November, 2011		Leveraging on Consumer Data At present, the world of mobile communications is in second phase of transition-from 'voice' to 'data' services. In this new era of data, which is gaining a huge traction with the launch of smartphones and development of many applications around data services, device manufacturers plan to leverage on data-supportive devices.
October 31, 2011		Tough Times Don't Last, Analytics Do At a time when organizations are craving for security, data and analytics will provide them with the strong foundation and confidence they need to excel with minimized risk.
September 27, 2011		Getting the numbers right What we do is "decision sciences" – a combination of math + business + technology to make better decisions. This includes Descriptive (What happened in the business), Inquisitive (Why something happened in the business), Predictive (What will happen in the business) and Prescriptive (the so what and now what). We call this our DIPP^TM Framework.
September 30, 2011		Mu Sigma Selected as Supplier of the Year by Walmart Financial Services Mu Sigma was presented this award for its delivery of actionable customer insights in the support of critical business strategies. Analytics efforts by Mu Sigma in Walmart Financial Services revolve mainly around Business Intelligence, Performance Reporting and Customer Analytics.
September 21, 2011		"Explosion of Data" Helps Decision Sciences Firm Mu Sigma Make Inc. 500 List for Second Consecutive Year Mu Sigma, the world's largest pure-play decision sciences company, announced today that once again it has been named to the Inc. 500 list of America's fastest growing private companies.
September 30, 2011		The Next Frontier in Call Center Analytics In a world where one negative tweet or blog post can kick off a firestorm of controversy and be viewed by millions, customer experience has become a chief concern for executives across industries...
August, 2011		Constraint programming Integer programming (IP) and mixed integer programming (MIP) have served the operations research (OR) community well for many years. They have been traditionally used to help organizations make extremely strategic decisions such as, "Should I open a new refinery at location X or location Y?" to very tactical, yet complex, questions such as, "Which routes should I operate to minimize my vehicle routing costs?" or "How should a baseball season be scheduled such that all teams have an equal number of home games?"
August 25, 2011		How to Move Beyond Simply Creating Analytics Companies are now focusing beyond creation of analytics – they are looking at smarter ways to consume and evangelize analytics...
July 1, 2011		Mu Sigma Mops Up $25M, to Clock $75M in Revenues The money will be used to expand its network in new markets and to beef up its in-house training facility, Mu Sigma University...
June 6, 2011		Sequoia Capital Invests $25 Million in Mu Sigma Mu Sigma, a leading provider of decision sciences and analytics services, announced today that it has raised Series C financing of $25 million from Sequoia Capital.
June 6, 2011		Sequoia Capital bets on analytics with $25M Mu Sigma investment Mu Sigma on Monday announced it has raised a $25 million third round from Sequoia Capital. Mu Sigma is a provider of data analytics services to more than 50 Fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft and Dell.
June 6, 2011		Mu Sigma Helps Companies Analyze 'Big Data', Raises $25 Million From Sequoia Mu Sigma, a startup that provides 'decision sciences' and analytics services to help companies make business decisions based on 'big data', has secured $25 million in Series C financing from Sequoia Capital.
May, 2011		Mu Sigma Customer Summit 2011 - A Report The annual Mu Sigma Customer Summit was held on 22nd and 23rd in Chicago, IL, with representatives from several fortune 500 companies gathering to share their perspectives in data driven dicision making and analytics.
May/June 2011		Simulation frameworks: The key to dashboard success Regardless of the organization that you work for, chances are that you use dashboards to display and deploy metrics. The technology for building dashboards has continuously evolved, so much so that it is now possible for a non-technical person to "build" a dashboard. Despite their ubiquity, whether dashboards have been able to achieve their utmost potential is subject to debate.
May 2, 2011		Making the Business Case for Sustainability In 2010, the United Nations Global Compact conducted a survey on sustainability and found that 93% of businesses consider it important to their future success. But most companies also have investors to please, and — let's face it — making the business case for sustainability can be difficult. As CEO of an analytics firm, I can say that we are seeing a surge in interest among Fortune 500 companies for analytical models that help determine the impact of going greenon their bottom line.
April 20, 2011		Workforce Analytics Optimizes Human Capital Most companies spend copious amounts of time evaluating the performance of their investments in areas such as R&D, capital equipment and even sales and marketing, but they never analyze investments into what is probably their greatest area of expense: human capital. For services firms, this may comprise 85 to 90 percent of total costs, and even for manufacturing firms, human capital costs are often twice as high as other capital costs.
April 11, 2011		Make Marketing Investments Pay Off Dhiraj Rajaram, founder and CEO of Mu Sigma, says that marketers must adopt a slew of new measurement activities for emerging channels like social and mobile. He suggests watching how customers react to certain strategies and understanding the meaning of crowd behavior. "You have to be far more agile and reactive in the social media ecosystem," Rajaram says...
March 30, 2011		Mu Sigma Ranked No. 1 Across Most Parameters in Datamonitor's Black Book of Outsourcing KPO Rankings Mu Sigma's first place ranking places it at the forefront of the KPO industry, across a range of parameters including Financial benefits, Shared goals, Risk mitigation, Partnership approach, Corporate reputation, Future orientation, Skills and resources, Requirement awareness and Problem resolutions...
February 21, 2011		The Power of Data in Preventing Churn Dhiraj Rajaram, CEO of Mu Sigma, agrees that companies need to invest in the right data, and that traditional sources might not suffice. Businesses must understand customers' needs, and conduct real-time monitoring in the contact center and in social media...
February 15, 2011		Innovative BI and Analytics to Help Start-ups Compete with Giants Given the cut-throat competition and the survival of the fittest environment, the IT industry is looking for more and more optimization in a business environment. Business Intelligence and Analytics in the past few years has been considered as the topmost priority for a CIO according to several surveys and reports...
February 07, 2011		DW: The devil's in the details In the late 1990s there used to be custom data warehouses. In the early 2000s, you had the concept of an appliance with server, storage and database software rolled into one. These proprietary systems were promoted by several small organizations including Netezza. Organizations could buy these in their entirety or not at all. "Today, appliance vendors have gone back to selling only the software. Netezza, Greenplum etc. are all selling software that runs on commodity hardware," said Vinod Shankar - Head, Business Intelligence, activecubes.
January 11, 2011		Making Data Relevant: The New Metrics for Social Marketing Social media has come of age. Marketers now have the ability to augment their traditional marketing approaches with rich behavioral and activity-based targeting that should increase marketing ROI significantly. However, businesses are facing an uncomfortable truth: There are no "best practices" for measuring a successful social media campaign. Crowd behavior is dynamic and context-specific, and it is difficult, if not impossible, to build a "one size fits all" solution.
January 07, 2011		Decision Sciences Myths Debunked Decision Sciences is the discipline of solving business problems by using first principles with a mix of mathematics, business knowledge, and technology. Familiar examples include data mining and predictive analytics. It emphasizes the adoption of a structured, hypothesis-driven approach to break down the problem, analyze data, and make business decisions.
January 05, 2011		The Rise of Data Science Every trend generates a countertrend, and the field of data analytics isn't immune to this phenomenon. For the past five years, the field has been steadily democratized by the astonishingly rapid emergence of exciting new tools and technologies for crunching through increasingly large mountains of data. The availability of all this "new gear" has made some aspects of data analysis seem easier, or at least less daunting. Therein lies the problem.

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