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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 science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Prescriptive analytics: Prescriptive analytics predicts likely outcomes and makes decision recommendations. An electrical engineer can use prescriptive analytics to digitally design and test out various electrical systems to see expected energy output and predict the eventual lifespan of the system’s components.

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Straumann Group is transforming dentistry with data, AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Selling the value of data transformation Iyengar and his team are 18 months into a three- to five-year journey that started by building out the data layer — corralling data sources such as ERP, CRM, and legacy databases into data warehouses for structured data and data lakes for unstructured data.

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Seven Steps to Success for Predictive Analytics in Financial Services

Birst BI

This may involve integrating different technologies, like cloud sources, on-premise databases, data warehouses and even spreadsheets. Add the predictive logic to the data model. With the source data now fully integrated into an analytic model, add and test different predictive algorithms.

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Create an end-to-end data strategy for Customer 360 on AWS

AWS Big Data

reduction in sales cycle duration, 22.8% Pillar 1: Data collection As you start building your customer data platform, you have to collect data from various systems and touchpoints, such as your sales systems, customer support, web and social media, and data marketplaces. Organizations using C360 achieved 43.9%

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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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Biggest Trends in Data Visualization Taking Shape in 2022

Smart Data Collective

Some solutions provide read and write access to any type of source and information, advanced integration, security capabilities and metadata management that help achieve virtual and high-performance Data Services in real-time, cache or batch mode. How does Data Virtualization complement Data Warehousing and SOA Architectures?