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Building a culture of data-driven decisions and insights with IBM Business Analytics

IBM Big Data Hub

Most recently we held an event at the IBM Data and AI Forum in Germany ( available on demand here ) where we shared the latest news in our business analytics portfolio. This suite of solutions helps transform the way clients can access, manage and consume business insights.

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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

More specifically: Descriptive analytics uses historical and current data from multiple sources to describe the present state, or a specified historical state, by identifying trends and patterns. In business analytics, this is the purview of business intelligence (BI). Data analytics vs. business analytics.

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AI+BI: Augmented analytics will soon bring data-driven insight to the masses

Birst BI

Yes, today a user with no training can take a dashboard that someone else built, make choices from drop-down menus to filter the data, double click on a chart to drill down into it, and other basic actions. For the vast majority of information workers, this is the definition of self-service analytics.

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7 famous analytics and AI disasters

CIO Business Intelligence

Organizations across every industry have been and continue to invest heavily in data and analytics. But like oil, data and analytics have their dark side. According to CIO’s State of the CIO 2022 report, 35% of IT leaders say that data and business analytics will drive the most IT investment at their organization this year.

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Why Construction Businesses Should Track KPIs to Conquer Economic Uncertainty

Jet Global

Top KPIs for construction, engineering, and subcontractors include: Safety Keeping a safe site ensures employees work in an environment with less risk while saving your business time and money. Safety incidents lead to mounting costs, including increased insurance payments and settlements.

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Convergent Evolution

Peter James Thomas

From 2000 to 2015, I had some success [5] with designing and implementing Data Warehouse architectures much like the following: As a lot of my work then was in Insurance or related fields, the Analytical Repositories tended to be Actuarial Databases and / or Exposure Management Databases, developed in collaboration with such teams.

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In praise of Jam Doughnuts or: How I learned to stop worrying and love Hybrid Data Organisations

Peter James Thomas

Analytics Expert – Similar to the Data Scientists, centralised “hub” staff might work more on standards (e.g. Oxbow Partners are an advisory firm for the insurance industry covering Strategy, Digital and M&A. for Data Visualisation), developing frameworks to be leveraged by others (e.g.