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

CIO Business Intelligence

Bayer Crop Science has applied analytics and decision-support to every element of its business, including the creation of “virtual factories” to perform “what-if” analyses at its corn manufacturing sites. ERP dashboards. Dashboards and other user interfaces that allow users to interact with and view results. Clinical DSS.

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Decoding Data Analyst Job Description: Skills, Tools, and Career Paths

FineReport

Data analysts leverage four key types of analytics in their work: Prescriptive analytics: Advising on optimal actions in specific scenarios. Diagnostic analytics: Uncovering the reasons behind specific occurrences through pattern analysis. Descriptive analytics: Assessing historical trends, such as sales and revenue.

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What is the Future of Business Intelligence in the Coming Year?

Smart Data Collective

Prescriptive Analytics. The companies that yield BI-related tasks to internal IT teams now, are likely to hire expert consultants in the next years. interactive reports, dashboards, timesheets flexibility in creating data apps user-friendly search for data trends integration with third-parties profound search feature.

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Re-Visualizing Business Intelligence, now let’s chat!

Smarten

Since it is the prerogative of a consultant to question and modify predominant jargon, I am hatting (yes, this too is an English word) …I am hatting myself in the hat of a consultant this morning, and I am questioning the application of the term “ Business Intelligence.” The consultant’s hat does not suit this guy!

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Five Steps for Building a Successful BI Strategy

Sisense

And every business – regardless of the industry, product, or service – should have a data analytics tool driving their business. As the Global Team Lead of BI Consultants at Sisense, I can say that the projects I’ve worked on where a BI strategy was involved, were more successful than projects without a strategy.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 10

Domino Data Lab

If your business is using big data and putting dashboards in front of analysts, you’re missing the point.”. For example, a request for a descriptive dashboard to “compare whether a red button or a blue button leads to lower churn” might be better served by a prescriptive model to personalize pages so that customers churn less.

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The Gartner 2021 Leadership Vision for Data & Analytics Leaders Webinar Q&A

Andrew White

As with any good consulting response, “it depends.” Do you recommend a consulting approach strategy rather than a CDO strategy? Remember, it’s not about how many records were cleaned up or how many dashboards were generated, it’s about how much of an impact on the outcome the worm of D&A has that counts. It really does.