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What is business analytics? Using data to improve business outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

What are the benefits of business analytics? Descriptive analytics uses historical and current data to describe the organization’s present state by identifying trends and patterns. Predictive analytics: What is likely to happen in the future? Prescriptive analytics: What do we need to do? This is the purview of BI.