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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Troy Segal is an editor and writer. She has 20+ years of experience covering personal finance, wealth management, and business news. Amilcar has 10 years of FinTech, blockchain, and crypto startup ...

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 ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Enterprises rely on 3 types of IoT analytics from their selected IoT platforms. By testing multiple IoT platforms, an enterprise can identify best-in-class analytics capabilities. Enterprises rely on ...

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 ...