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Self-Service BI vs Traditional BI: What’s Next?

Alation

As Business Objects founder Bernard Liautaud notes in e-Business Intelligence: Turning Information Into Knowledge Into Profit (McGraw-Hill, 2001), the lack of ad hoc data access causes IT staff to drown in requests. Slow requirements led technology leaders to demand proactive business intelligence. The Emergence of Self-Service BI.

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Data science vs. machine learning: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

It uses advanced tools to look at raw data, gather a data set, process it, and develop insights to create meaning. Areas making up the data science field include mining, statistics, data analytics, data modeling, machine learning modeling and programming.