Predictive modeling drives Account Based Marketing or ABM strategies by identifying the right audiences. With a good ABM strategy, you can personalize your website messaging to individuals once they land on your pages.  Personalization software tracks visitor sources and actions. Then uses behavioral, demographic data to provide personalized experiences according to the visitor's characteristics. Technology won't do everything. Successful ABM strategies depend on proper integration between sales and marketing. For more read: http://customerthink.com/whats-missing-from-your-account-based-marketing-strategy/

NASA is working on big data analytics to facilitate their mission mars more productive and informative. They are using big data analytics to understand the environment of the mars. That is they are using modern technology to collect and analyze environmental data and based on that it will give a predefined signal to the Curiosity rover currently operating in Mars. These data points help to generate a more specific road map for upcoming 2020 mars mission for NASA. One of The expert in NASA JPL laboratory says these huge analytic modelling defines an easier way to resolve the problem. 

To read, follow: http://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2016/04/14/amazing-big-data-at-nasa-real-time-analytics-150-million-miles-from-earth/#1cbda1b371dd

The challenges faced by the insurance industry are same as other companies. Insurance industry involves generating, storing, and making large & complex sets of data to create efficiencies and improving their bottom line. In a recent survey, 54% of 48 U.S. and P/C insurance executives said they use predictive modelling for underwriting/risk selection, and that usage is expected to grow by 40% over the next two years. Predictive modeling helps in claims triage, underwriting appetite and strategy, market-share analysis, and litigation propensity. Predictive analytics can boost companies' profitability by: 1. Developing a clear analytics roadmap across business units. 

2. Monitoring their outputs against what is happening to avoid the situation where underwriters push back on predictive models.

3. Developing an enterprise-wide model monitoring program to ensure models are recent and recalibrated on a consistent basis. 

4. Looking outside the industry to see how other organizations measure ROI.

For more read the article written by Loren Trimble and Michael Kim(Contributors) : http://ww2.cfo.com/risk-management/2016/03/predictive-modeling-can-make-insurers-better-risk-managers/