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When a patient walks into a doctor’s office with a symptom, there are few ways for a physician to look at the situation. There is a descriptive perspective, which looks to the past and says, “Aha! The ...

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 ...

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 ...

The world is digitizing with increasing speed, and global interconnectivity is rising right along with it, generating abundant data. This data can facilitate more intelligent business decisions and ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. Improved interoperability ...

In previous posts we gave an overview of business analytics ("The Basics of Business Analytics"-- Part 1 and Part 2) and described how model-driven prescriptive analytics can maximize profit by ...

The latter category of prescriptive analytics—in which recommendations are provided as to what steps to take next—is the newest and most advanced and also the most interesting for business users. What ...

Here we explore the ways predictive analytics and prescriptive analytics are being used in the call center today, and trends to watch for tomorrow. Predictive analytics can help evaluate behavioral ...