Business Analytics

The goal of business intelligence is to use data to answer questions and drive decision making. Analytics is all about finding meaningful patterns in data and extrapolating key insights. Analytics performed using technology is often based around statistical modeling. Businesses ty ...

Big Data: Challenges and Opportunities

The volume of Big Data is a critical point that’s creating a lot of new challenges for companies. As business and other aspects of life become more digital, there’s a lot of both structured and unstructured data being created all the time. As companies try to mine intelligence from ...

What is Big Data?

Big Data is any data that can’t be managed using conventional database tools but can still be analyzed to create valuable insight for the organization.   Related Articles: https://www.bette ...

10 Principles of the New Business Intelligence

BI historically has been about dashboards and scorecards developed for specific uses, says AMR Research analyst John Haggerty. But that’s changing. “All of a sudden it’s about integrated analytics within applications,” he says. “The conversation is starting to shift to looking at ...

PERSUADING WITH DATA

The HBR Insight Center highlights emerging thinking around today’s most important business ideas. In this Insight Center, we’ll look at best practices for using graphics, data, and storytelling to make spectacular business cases, get organizational buy-in, train talent, and win custome ...

The Challenge of Mobile

Business Intelligence  Today there’s a much larger universe of BI consumers in the lines of business, and they have different requirements than analysts.   Related Articles:

Top 11 Business Intelligence and Analytics Trends for 2017

Over the past decade business intelligence has been revolutionized. Data exploded, and became big. We all gained access to the cloud. Spreadsheets finally took a backseat to actionable and insightful data visualizations and interactive business dashboards. The rise of self-service analytic ...