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Three Emerging Analytics Products Derived from Value-driven Data Innovation and Insights Discovery in the Enterprise

Rocket-Powered Data Science

I recently saw an informal online survey that asked users which types of data (tabular, text, images, or “other”) are being used in their organization’s analytics applications. This was not a scientific or statistically robust survey, so the results are not necessarily reliable, but they are interesting and provocative.

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What is business analytics? Using data to improve business outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

What is business analytics? Business analytics is the practical application of statistical analysis and technologies on business data to identify and anticipate trends and predict business outcomes. What is the difference between business analytics and business intelligence? Prescriptive analytics: What do we need to do?

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Skilled IT pay defined by volatility, security, and AI

CIO Business Intelligence

No obviously AI-related IT certifications made it onto Foote Partners’ list of highest payers, although the two-year-old IBM Certified Specialist — AI Enterprise Workflow V1 may make it to the top one day. AI skills more valuable than certifications There were a couple of stand-outs among those.

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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

The chief aim of data analytics is to apply statistical analysis and technologies on data to find trends and solve problems. Data analytics has become increasingly important in the enterprise as a means for analyzing and shaping business processes and improving decision-making and business results.

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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Though you may encounter the terms “data science” and “data analytics” being used interchangeably in conversations or online, they refer to two distinctly different concepts. Data science is an area of expertise that combines many disciplines such as mathematics, computer science, software engineering and statistics.

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Analytics Insights and Careers at the Speed of Data

Rocket-Powered Data Science

The dynamic changes of the business requirements and value propositions around data analytics have been increasingly intense in depth (in the number of applications in each business unit) and in breadth (in the enterprise-wide scope of applications in all business units in all sectors).

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What are decision support systems? Sifting data for better business decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

The concept of DSS grew out of research conducted at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in the 1950s and 1960s, but really took root in the enterprise in the 1980s in the form of executive information systems (EIS), group decision support systems (GDSS), and organizational decision support systems (ODSS). Parmenides Edios.