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External Data Supports More Accurate Planning

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

At the end of the season, the vendor brings in a consultant to advise on pricing for the coming year. If that numbers-driven consultant only considers the daily sales totals and the price received each day, the obvious conclusion is that higher prices lead to more unit sales, so raise prices.

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How Can BI Consulting Services Help Foster Data-driven Decisions

BizAcuity

For organizations, this means adopting a data-driven approach—one that replaces gut instinct with factual evidence and predictive insights. BI consulting services play a central role in this shift, equipping businesses with the frameworks and tools to extract true value from their data. What is BI Consulting?

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Proposals for model vulnerability and security

O'Reilly on Data

The objective here is to brainstorm on potential security vulnerabilities and defenses in the context of popular, traditional predictive modeling systems, such as linear and tree-based models trained on static data sets. If an attacker can receive many predictions from your model API or other endpoint (website, app, etc.),

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Beyond the hype: Do you really need an LLM for your data?

CIO Business Intelligence

Even basic predictive modeling can be done with lightweight machine learning in Python or R. We already have excellent tools for these tasks. Tableau, Qlik and Power BI can handle interactive dashboards and visualizations. SQL can crunch numbers and identify top-selling products. In retail, basic database queries can track inventory.

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RPA and IPA – Their Similarities are Different, but Their Rapid Growth Trajectories are the Same

Rocket-Powered Data Science

The AAI report covers these industries: energy/utilities, financial/insurance, government, healthcare, industrial/manufacturing, life sciences, retail/consumer, services/consulting, technology, telecom, and transportation/airlines. AAI’s recently published “Now and Next State of RPA” report presents detailed results of that survey.

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Transforming IT from cost center to catalyst

CIO Business Intelligence

We envisioned harnessing this data through predictive models to gain valuable insights into various aspects of the industry. This included predicting political outcomes, such as potential votes on pipeline extensions, as well as operational issues like predicting the failure of downhole submersible pumps, which can be costly to repair.

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Cloudera Partners with Allitix to Fuel Enterprise Connected Planning Solutions

Cloudera

Cloudera is excited to announce a partnership with Allitix, a leading IT consultancy specializing in connected planning and predictive modeling. Data-backed Decisions Through Predictive Models Predictive models use historical data and analytics to forecast future outcomes through mathematical processes.