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Understanding BI Tools in Today’s Market

Smarten

Without business intelligence, the enterprise does not have an objective understanding of what works, what does not work, and how, when and where to make changes to adapt to the market, its customers and its competition. This approach typically focuses on descriptive analytics based on historical data to answer the question “What happened?”

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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Data scientists will often perform data analysis tasks to understand a dataset or evaluate outcomes. Business users will also perform data analytics within business intelligence (BI) platforms for insight into current market conditions or probable decision-making outcomes.

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Seven Steps to Success for Predictive Analytics in Financial Services

Birst BI

Today, the most common usage of business intelligence is for the production of descriptive analytics. . Descriptive Analytics: Valuable but limited insights into historical behavior. The vast majority of financial services companies use the data within their applications for what is called “ Descriptive Analytics.”

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Data Visualization and Visual Analytics: Seeing the World of Data

Sisense

Analytics acts as the source for data visualization and contributes to the health of any organization by identifying underlying models and patterns and predicting needs. Broadly, there are three types of analytics: descriptive , prescriptive , and predictive. A simple example would be the analysis of marketing campaigns.

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Disrupt and Innovate in a Data-Driven World

Cloudera

In the nonprofit sector, early applications of data analytics and machine learning have mostly focused on improving fundraising and marketing. Gain improved intelligence on operating context and needs through expanded use of descriptive analytics techniques. In many settings this is the best information available.

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What Is Embedded Analytics?

Jet Global

Section 2: Embedded Analytics: No Longer a Want but a Need Section 3: How to be Successful with Embedded Analytics Section 4: Embedded Analytics: Build versus Buy Section 5: Evaluating an Embedded Analytics Solution Section 6: Go-to-Market Best Practices Section 7: The Future of Embedded Analytics Section 1: What are Embedded Analytics?

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What is business intelligence? Transforming data into business insights

CIO Business Intelligence

Trusted and governed data: Modern BI platforms can combine internal databases with external data sources into a single data warehouse, allowing departments across an organization to access the same data at one time.