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What is business analytics? Using data to improve business outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

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? Examples of business analytics. This is the purview of BI.