This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet / TechRepublic special feature, explores how you set up an analytics infrastructure that sees around corners and gives you options to avoid a head-on crash. Read ...

In this special guest feature, Will Fellers, Product Manager at Quantum Spatial Inc., explores different types of analytics – descriptive, predictive and prescriptive – and discusses how companies can ...

Welcome to the dawn of the cognitive era. According to the recent IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) report, “Analytics: Dawn of the Cognitive Era,” almost three-quarters of more than 6,000 ...

Descriptive analytics -- looking into what has happened in the past -- is commoditized. Traditional BI, reports, and dashboards are well understood and used in one way or another across a wide ...

We’ve all heard the phrase “data-driven decisions” in reference to organizational leaders aspirations' to use hard facts and figures to inform their business decisions. In higher education, the core ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS ...

A playbook for leaders to master AI analytics, overcome scaling hurdles, control costs, empower teams, prove ROI and achieve competitive advantage. The new analytics mandate is descriptive, predictive ...

Representative image (iStock) Today, the exponential growth in data and increasing complexity in consumer behavior render traditional marketing approaches inadequate. Where once hindsight and insight ...

I was watching a short video by Babson College Prof. Thomas Davenport on the Harvard Business Review website recently and found it to be a good, simplified explanation of analytics. (Stop! Don't swipe ...