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What is business intelligence? Transforming data into business insights

CIO Business Intelligence

Business intelligence vs. business analytics Business analytics and BI serve similar purposes and are often used as interchangeable terms, but BI should be considered a subset of business analytics. Whereas BI studies historical data to guide business decision-making, business analytics is about looking forward.

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What Is Embedded Analytics?

Jet Global

Some cloud applications can even provide new benchmarks based on customer data. Advanced Analytics Some apps provide a unique value proposition through the development of advanced (and often proprietary) statistical models. These advanced analytics become easy for users to apply in their own analyses.