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An Overview of Sales Analytics in Event Industry

BizAcuity

Some businesses in 2003 started using predictive analytics generating an average Return on Investment or ROI of 145% as per the study that was undertaken by IDC. With more and more information became readily available online in the mid 2000s, companies started taking advantage of it by leveraging big data analytics.

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What is TOGAF? An enterprise architecture methodology for business

CIO Business Intelligence

in December 2003. TOGAF was released in 1995, expanding on the concepts found in the TAFIM framework. TOGAF 7 was released in December 2001 as the “Technical Edition,” followed by TOGAF 8 Enterprise Edition in December 2002; it was then updated to TOGAF 8.1 The Open Group took over TOGAF in 2005 and released TOGAF 8.1.1 in November 2006.

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Humans-in-the-loop forecasting: integrating data science and business planning

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

The ROI of human involvement When it comes to human involvement, the key difference is in the magnitude of costs associated with any one forecast cycle. This defines the ROI on the investment of human time. Supply Chain Management: Design, Coordination and Operation, 2003. 5] Graves, S.C.