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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

More specifically: Descriptive analytics uses historical and current data from multiple sources to describe the present state, or a specified historical state, by identifying trends and patterns. Diagnostic analytics uses data (often generated via descriptive analytics) to discover the factors or reasons for past performance.

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Analytics Insights and Careers at the Speed of Data

Rocket-Powered Data Science

The vast scope of this digital transformation in dynamic business insights discovery from entities, events, and behaviors is on a scale that is almost incomprehensible. Traditional business analytics approaches (on laptops, in the cloud, or with static datasets) will not keep up with this growing tidal wave of dynamic data.

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Automated Sales Forecasting with Predictive Analytics Making AI Real (Part 4)

Jedox

In today’s organizations, the role of financial controlling or FP&A is not only to provide financial insights so business partners can make better decisions, but it is also to lead the way towards a more mature use of analytics technology including predictive analytics for sales forecasting. Making AI Real (Part 2).

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Straumann Group is transforming dentistry with data, AI

CIO Business Intelligence

The next goal, with the aid of partner Findability Sciences, will be to build out ML and AI pipelines into an information delivery layer that can support predictive and prescriptive analytics. “As Not surprisingly, it was this offensive side that got Straumann’s board invested in Iyengar’s plan for transformation.

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AIOps reimagines hybrid multicloud platform operations

IBM Big Data Hub

The AIOps engine is focused on addressing four key things: Descriptive analytics to show what happened in an environment. Predictive analytics to show what will happen next. Prescriptive analytics to show how to achieve or prevent the prediction. Diagnostics to show why it happened.

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Trending Technologies for BI & Financial Planning and AnalysisMaking AI Real (Part 2)

Jedox

Part one of our blog series explored how people are the driving force behind the digital transformation and how it is fueled by artificial intelligence and machine learning. Now, we will take a deeper look into AI, Machine learning and other trending technologies and the evolution of data analytics from descriptive to prescriptive.

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Five Steps for Building a Successful BI Strategy

Sisense

With a goal of getting to the end of the chart with predictive and prescriptive analytics, you can ask questions like: Are we going to hit our targets by the end of the year? Do you want to be more efficient? Find a bottleneck in R&D? Share knowledge with customers? Add value to your solution? .