Using Text Analytics to Analyze Customer Feedback
If your company is using open-ended survey questions in an effort to maintain a competitive edge, you may be surprised to learn there are ways that you can manage your unstructured data in such a way that it will allow your company to maximize its business value. While most everyone agrees that open-ended questions allow companies to better understand their customers’ experience, analyzing those insights,...
Read moreMachine Learning for Predictive Analysis
Most everyone will agree that big data is a virtual untapped resource of intelligence that can both help support business decisions in addition to enhancing operations. As data continues to change and diversify, businesses are beginning to understand the value of embracing predictive analytics. If you’re not familiar with what predictive analytics is, we’ll take a minute to explain it. First, you should start by...
Read moreBusiness Intelligence and the Internet of Things
If you’re wondering if your organization could benefit from the use of business intelligence and data analytics, you’ve come to the right place. For this blog post, we wanted to address business intelligence and the Internet of Things (IoT), and how the use of real-time data analytics using IOT devices can help your company enhance its profitability. Yes, terms like “big data analytics” and “the...
Read moreBusiness Intelligence for the Manufacturing Sector
The rapid gains that have been made in Big Data and business analytics are helping to fuel a new era within the manufacturing sector. When BI is harnessed and used properly, it can allow provide you with grater insight to your supply chain. Not only will you have greater visibility from the top floor of your office, BI can also help you better understand what’s...
Read moreDifferences Between Off-the-Shelf and Custom BI Solutions
If you’re trying to decide between an off-the-shelf business intelligence tool and a custom business intelligence solution, you’ve come to the right place. Business intelligence has grown by leaps and bounds in the past two decades. In the early days, users harnessed BI to help them marry complex SQL queries and MS Excel. Today, BI software has a growing number of self-service, user friendly functionalities....
Read moreWhy Your Company Needs a Data Warehouse
If you’re not someone who is fully up to speed on why a data warehouse is important, we wanted to take a few paragraphs to help walk you through it. The term data warehouse gets thrown around a lot these days. It’s a hot topic within industry newsletters. You may have read it online. In some cases, you may have heard your employees and colleagues...
Read moreHow Big Data Can Benefit Your Organization
Like it or not, Big Data is here to stay. If your business isn’t taking advantage of it, you’re missing out on lucrative growth opportunities. If you don’t know what Big Data is, well, maybe we should start there. Big Data defined If you were to combine all the tools and processes that are related to managing and utilizing your data sets, that combo would...
Read moreHow Data Automation Will Impact the Insurance Industry
Data automation is having a big impact across all industries. Manufacturers are using Big Data to help improve their yields, the pharmaceutical industry is using big data to increase productivity and businesses are using data automation to help with things such as automated ordering and client analytics. It shouldn’t be at all surprising that the insurance industry stands to benefit from data automation, as well....
Read moreWHY ANALYTICS IS HERE TO STAY
Analytics is a wave from the future. Terms like Business Intelligence and Big Data are becoming as common as “supply”, “market analysis” etc. Clearly, analytics is here to stay and you/your company should join the bandwagon- if you haven’t yet. Wikipedia defines analytics as, “The discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data.” Further definitions state, “Analytics is the systematic computational analysis of data.”...
Read moreWHAT COULD GO WRONG WHEN YOU INVEST IN BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE?
The implementation of Business Intelligence by a company is one that is exciting and difficult. It must be approached with utmost care and given the highest possible consideration. A lot can go wrong but to understand BI implementation here are the steps taken to integrate a BI system, which may vary depending on the needs of the clients, but the main parameters that are common...
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