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Why prescriptive analytics and decision optimization are crucial

IBM Big Data Hub

Prescriptive analytics helps identify the best course of action that can enable businesses to achieve organizational goals. Although figuring out what you should do is a crucial aspect of business, the value of prescriptive analytics is often missed.

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Prescriptive Analytics – a Winning Bet for Casinos

BizAcuity

This is what makes the casino industry a great use case for prescriptive analytics technologies and applications. The need for prescriptive analytics. Prescriptive analytics is the area of business analytics (BA) dedicated to finding the best course of action for a given situation.

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Analytics Insights and Careers at the Speed of Data

Rocket-Powered Data Science

Focus on the technologies and engineering components: e.g., sensors, monitoring, cloud-to-edge, microservices, serverless, insights-as-a-service APIs, IFTTT (IF-This-Then-That) architectures.

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Predictive Analytics on Small Data

Smarten

A vast amount of data, classified and grouped, running analytics to predict what will be the next event that one or more elements of the group will take. Predictive analytics like this allows pushing of right products to e-commerce shoppers.

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Seven Steps to Success for Predictive Analytics in Financial Services

Birst BI

An analytics alternative that goes beyond descriptive analytics is called “Predictive Analytics.”. Predictive Analytics: Predicting Future Outcomes. While descriptive analytics are focused on historical performance, predictive analytics are about predicting future outcomes.

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3 Things Citizen Data Scientists Need in Predictive Analytics!

Smarten

The technology research firm, Gartner has predicted that, ‘predictive and prescriptive analytics will attract 40% of net new enterprise investment in the overall business intelligence and analytics market.’ Complete Set of Analytical Techniques. Access to Flexible, Intuitive Predictive Modeling.

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What is business analytics? Using data to improve business outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

Descriptive analytics uses historical and current data to describe the organization’s present state by identifying trends and patterns. Predictive analytics: What is likely to happen in the future? Prescriptive analytics: What do we need to do? This is the purview of BI. Kaiser Permanente streamlines operations.