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Skilled IT pay defined by volatility, security, and AI

CIO Business Intelligence

This volatility can make it hard for IT workers to decide where to focus their career development efforts, but there are at least some areas of stability in the market: despite all other changes in pay premiums, workers with AI skills and security certifications continued to reap rich rewards.

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What is business analytics? Using data to improve business outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

BI focuses on descriptive analytics, data collection, data storage, knowledge management, and data analysis to evaluate past business data and better understand currently known information. Whereas BI studies historical data to guide business decision-making, business analytics is about looking forward.

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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Business users will also perform data analytics within business intelligence (BI) platforms for insight into current market conditions or probable decision-making outcomes. Many functions of data analytics—such as making predictions—are built on machine learning algorithms and models that are developed by data scientists.

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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. The results showed that (among those surveyed) approximately 90% of enterprise analytics applications are being built on tabular data.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics. Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes.

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Pay for in-demand IT skills rises fastest in 14 years

CIO Business Intelligence

Foote does not report on any SAP certifications, but among the 579 certifications it does report on, architecture, project management, process and information security certifications remain the most valuable, commanding a pay premium of just over 8%. Among them, only TensorFlow and SRE fell.).

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The Role Of Technology In A Changing Financial Services Sector Part II

Cloudera

However, another type of analytics, called “prescriptive analytics”, involves simulation tools that look towards the future with a view of many potential scenarios. Prescriptive analytics provides decision-makers with thousands of potential future scenarios. To capture the importance of sequencing of events. .