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Jabil is building reports with IBM Business Analytics Portfolio

IBM Big Data Hub

Efficient management of an incredibly complex supply chain Jabil is a longtime partner and IBM Business Analytics (BA) portfolio user. Switching to IBM Business Analytics gave Jabil the ability to gather and structure data in a centralized approach for management.

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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Overview: Data science vs data analytics Think of data science as the overarching umbrella that covers a wide range of tasks performed to find patterns in large datasets, structure data for use, train machine learning models and develop artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

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Understanding Structured and Unstructured Data

Sisense

Structured vs unstructured data. Structured data is far easier for programs to understand, while unstructured data poses a greater challenge. However, both types of data play an important role in data analysis. Structured data. Structured data is organized in tabular format (ie.

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In-depth with CDO Christopher Bannocks

Peter James Thomas

I am on record multiple times [4] stating that technology choices are much less important than other aspects of data work. However, it is hard to ignore the impact that Big Data and related technologies have had. A few years into the cycle of Big Data adoption, do you see the tools and approaches yielding the expected benefits?

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Building a Beautiful Data Lakehouse

CIO Business Intelligence

But the data repository options that have been around for a while tend to fall short in their ability to serve as the foundation for big data analytics powered by AI. Traditional data warehouses, for example, support datasets from multiple sources but require a consistent data structure.

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Delivering Low-latency Analytics Products for Business Success

Rocket-Powered Data Science

The results showed that (among those surveyed) approximately 90% of enterprise analytics applications are being built on tabular data. The ease with which such structured data can be stored, understood, indexed, searched, accessed, and incorporated into business models could explain this high percentage.

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How Jabil is building better, faster enterprise reporting

IBM Big Data Hub

Jabil is a longtime partner and IBM Business Analytics (BA) portfolio user, but before they made the switch to BA almost 15 years ago, they were using excel and spending most of their financial planning time trying to determine which numbers were most true for planning purposes. We can’t even see where the bar used to be.”.