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What is business analytics? Using data to improve business outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

Business analytics also involves data mining, statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and the like, but is focused on driving better business decisions. What is the difference between business analytics and business intelligence? Prescriptive analytics: What do we need to do?

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A Guide to Data Analytics in the Travel Industry

Alation

How is data analytics used in the travel industry? The travel and tourism industry can use predictive, descriptive, and prescriptive analytics to make data-driven decisions that ultimately enhance revenue, mitigate risk, and increase efficiencies. Using Alation, ARC automated the data curation and cataloging process.

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Top 10 Analytics And Business Intelligence Trends For 2020

datapine

Over the past decade, business intelligence has been revolutionized. Spreadsheets finally took a backseat to actionable and insightful data visualizations and interactive business dashboards. The rise of self-service analytics democratized the data product chain. Suddenly advanced analytics wasn’t just for the analysts.