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Alation Connected Sheets Brings Trust to Spreadsheets

Alation

Spreadsheets dominate the activities of gathering and preparing data, and performing descriptive analytics. Demand generation marketing teams rely on spreadsheets for analyzing the performance and ROI of different channels. Or they don’t have the technical skill to extract, cleanse, or transform data they need.

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Three Types of Actionable Business Analytics Not Called Predictive or Prescriptive

Rocket-Powered Data Science

Note how this simple mathematical expression of prescriptive analytics is exactly the opposite of our previous expression of predictive analytics (given X, find Y). Here are a few business examples of this type of prescriptive analytics: Which marketing campaign is most efficient and effective (has best ROI) in optimizing sales?

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What Is Embedded Analytics?

Jet Global

Return on Investment Now we bring it all together to calculate the ROI on embedded analytics. Costs: The investment in developing and maintaining the solution. “-1”: The formula assures that a positive ROI is achieved only when benefits exceed the costs. Benefits: The combination of strategic benefits (e.g., cost reduction).