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

CIO Business Intelligence

A DSS supports the management, operations, and planning levels of an organization in making better decisions by assessing the significance of uncertainties and the tradeoffs involved in making one decision over another. Commonly used models include: Statistical models. Analytics, Data Science

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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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Disrupt and Innovate in a Data-Driven World

Cloudera

The private sector already very successfully uses data analytics and machine learning not only to realise efficiency gains but also – even more importantly – to create completely new services and business models. Gain improved intelligence on operating context and needs through expanded use of descriptive analytics techniques.