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What is business analytics? Using data to improve business outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

Research firm Gartner defines business analytics as “solutions used to build analysis models and simulations to create scenarios, understand realities, and predict future states.”. Predictive analytics is the use of techniques such as statistical modeling, forecasting, and machine learning to make predictions about future outcomes.

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Top 10 Analytics And Business Intelligence Trends For 2020

datapine

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. 2) Data Discovery/Visualization. Data exploded and became big.