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What is business analytics? Using data to improve business outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

Predictive analytics is the use of techniques such as statistical modeling, forecasting, and machine learning to make predictions about future outcomes. Prescriptive analytics: What do we need to do? Simplilearn adds a fourth technique : Diagnostic analytics: Why is it happening?

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

Rocket-Powered Data Science

Accompanying the massive growth in sensor data (from ubiquitous IoT devices, including location-based and time-based streaming data), there have emerged some special analytics products that are growing in significance, especially in the context of innovation and insights discovery from on-prem enterprise data sources.

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Why Should I Consider the Citizen Data Scientist Role?

Smarten

Gartner says that a Citizen Data Scientist is “a person who creates or generates models that leverage predictive or prescriptive analytics, but whose primary job function is outside of the field of statistics and analytics.” This term has been around for some time and was popularized by Gartner.

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Seven Steps to Success for Predictive Analytics in Financial Services

Birst BI

Descriptive analytics are useful because this method of analysis enables financial services companies to learn from past behaviors. Descriptive analytics techniques are often used to summarize important business metrics such as account balance growth, average claim amount and year-over-year trade volumes.

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What’s the Difference Between Business Intelligence and Business Analytics?

Sisense

BI lets you apply chosen metrics to potentially huge, unstructured datasets, and covers querying, data mining , online analytical processing ( OLAP ), and reporting as well as business performance monitoring, predictive and prescriptive analytics. Or is Business Intelligence One Part of Business Analytics?

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

AWS Big Data

The following figure shows some of the metrics derived from the study. Without C360, businesses face missed opportunities, inaccurate reports, and disjointed customer experiences, leading to customer churn. You can use the same capabilities to serve financial reporting, measure operational performance, or even monetize data assets.

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Role of Workforce Analytics in Event Industry

BizAcuity

Workforce Analytics in simple terms can be defined as an advanced set of software and methodology tools that measures, characterizes, and organizes sophisticated employee data and these tools helps in understanding the employee performance in a logical way. For the event industry the benefits of workforce analytics approach include-.