This proposal review guide provides criteria for evaluating advanced analytics proposals in 3 key areas: 1) The process methodology should include an iterative approach to allow for discoveries during execution. 2) The business problem should be clearly defined and the proposed solution should address it. Both supervised and unsupervised problems require defining relevant variables and attributes. 3) The data preparation, modeling, evaluation, and deployment stages need to be thoroughly planned, using appropriate techniques and metrics given the problem and data. Ongoing evaluation and model management are important once deployed.