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What are decision support systems? Sifting data for better business decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

A DSS leverages a combination of raw data, documents, personal knowledge, and/or business models to help users make decisions. The data sources used by a DSS could include relational data sources, cubes, data warehouses, electronic health records (EHRs), revenue projections, sales projections, and more.

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Data Visualization and Visual Analytics: Seeing the World of Data

Sisense

Broadly, there are three types of analytics: descriptive , prescriptive , and predictive. The simplest type, descriptive analytics , describes something that has already happened and suggests its root causes. This data is gathered into either on-premises servers or increasingly into cloud data warehouses and data lakes.

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What Is Embedded Analytics?

Jet Global

These sit on top of data warehouses that are strictly governed by IT departments. The role of traditional BI platforms is to collect data from various business systems. We have laid out the pricing and packaging trends that pertain to embedded analytics. Predictive Analytics: If x, then y (e.g.,