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Seeing the Future with Predictive Analytics

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Today, in addition to those activities, new analytical tools are available to help business leaders predict what could happen in the future. Petro goes on to predict companies failing to grasp the future risk ending up in history’s dustbin. ” Types of analytics. ” Types of analytics.

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Predictive Analytics: Supply Chain’s Cloudy Crystal Ball

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Not surprisingly, companies that employ advanced analytics to improve decision making and execution have the results to show for it.”. One of the new tools available to decision makers is predictive analytics. Leveraging predictive analytics is as close as business leaders will come to having a crystal ball.

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Predicting the Future is Neither Easy nor Certain

Enterra Insights

The late philosopher Eric Hoffer and the late business guru Peter Drucker shared a common belief about the difficulty of predicting the future. Hoffer wrote, “The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.” Drucker wrote, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

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Gaining a Competitive Edge through Advanced Analytics

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Gary Cokins ( @GaryCokins ), founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC, asserts, “Analytics is becoming a competitive edge for organizations. Once being a ‘nice-to-have,’ applying analytics is now becoming mission-critical.”[1] Organizations are drowning in data but starving for information.

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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[Webinar] Using Predictive Analytics to Drive Sales and Delight Customers

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In today’s data-driven world, we’ve become accustomed to companies predicting what we need even before we think we need them. A purchase on Amazon will immediately suggest other products that might be of interest. Similarly, Netflix can predict the type of movies that you might enjoy based on your previous TV watching habits.

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Big Data Analytics are Table Stakes for Digital Age Businesses

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Business executives are always looking for a competitive edge and many have turned to advanced analytics to find that advantage. In the digital age, they often gamble their company’s future on the decisions they make, which is why advanced analytics have become table stakes in business. Descriptive analytics. ”[6].

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes.