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 ...

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 ...

The majority of raw data, particularly big data, doesn’t offer a lot of value in its unprocessed state. Of course, by applying the right set of tools, we can pull powerful insights from this stockpile ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While predictive analytics have been an ed tech buzzword in recent years, they are but a midpoint in the evolution of data analytics in higher education. What began as descriptive analytics, the ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. Predictive analytics is a method of data analysis used within ...

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 ...