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What is Business Analytics

Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization
A set of computer technologies, statistical techniques, and mathematical models to discover meaningful patterns or relationships in data for the purpose of gaining insights into business operations and making better, fact-based decisions.
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Supply Chain Analytics in the Era of Big Data
Ching-Chung Kuo (University of North Texas, USA) and Zhen Li (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5202-6.ch211
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Analysis of Big Data
Company analytics is the set of skills, technology, and processes used to iteratively explore and investigate historical business performance in order to obtain insight and drive business model.
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Exploring the Potential of ChatGPT in Financial Decision Making
The process of analyzing data to gain valuable insights, which helps to develop strategies to increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve strategic decision-making.
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Defining a Business-Driven Optimization Problem
A set of tools and methods used for execrating business insight making from the available data or system structure. It provide meaningful information with dynamic and sophisticate methods of problem solving such as optimization.
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Integrated Data Architecture for Business
The broad use of data and quantitative analysis to make business decisions in corporations.
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Designing a Business Analytics Culture in Organizations in India
It is the process of working with factual information in organizations, using suitable tools and techniques to identify the nuggets of wisdom (insights) from them that can have direct impact on influencing good decision making.
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Business Analytics for Business Analysts in Manufacturing
The use of statistics and other operations research techniques, such as simulation, decision trees and other operations research techniques.
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Integrated Data Architecture for Business
The broad use of data and quantitative analysis to make business decisions in corporations.
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Large-Scale LP in Business Analytics
Business analytics utilizes big data and statistical and quantitative analyses to describe and investigate business performance and optimum planning.
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Integrating Theory and Practice to Identify Contemporary Best Practice Factors in USA Not-for-Profits
Business intelligence involves collecting data from competitors while business analytics may be the analysis performed on this data or on the data collected through the normal process of business (such as the transaction processing system records).
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Centralize vs. Decentralize Supply Chain Analysis
A set of approaches that help organizations understand and improve business performance, based on different methods and data.
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Management Accountants' Skills and Competencies: How Business Analytics Tools Reshape the Future
Business analytics refers to the practice of utilizing statistical techniques and technological tools to examine past data with the objective of obtaining fresh insights and enhancing the effectiveness of strategic decision-making within a company.
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The Role of Business Analytics in Performance Management
Process of determining and understanding the effectiveness of various organizational operations. Business analytics can be either focused on internal or external processes. Different specializations exist, encompassing most major aspects of business, including risk analysis, market analysis, and supply chain analysis.
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Modelling in Support of Decision Making in Business Intelligence
It deals with technologies, techniques and methods for investigation, exploration and analysis of past business events and processes.
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Business Analytics and Big Data: Driving Organizational Change
Use of data, information technology, statistical analysis, and quantitative methods and models to support organizational decision making and problem solving.
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Business Intelligence Applied to Tourism
Combination of Business Intelligence processes with machine learning algorithms, applied to historical data to obtain new insights that enhance decision-making suited to the company's business.
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Business Applications of Big Data: Considerations for Not-for-Profits
Skills, technologies, practices for ongoing exploration and investigation of previous company performance to gain insight and drive business planning.
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Big Data Mining and Analytics
Refers to the development of skills and technologies, as well as applications and practices, for continuous iterative exploration, investigation, and understanding of past business performance to gain new insight and drive business planning. It aims to develop quantitative processes for a business to reach optimal decisions and to perform business knowledge discovery.
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Enterprise Data Lake Management in Business Intelligence and Analytics: Challenges and Research Gaps in Analytics Practices and Integration
The skills, technologies, applications, and practices to continuously iteratively examine past business performance to gain insight and drive business planning. Business Analytics focuses heavily on data and statistical analysis.
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Business Intelligence through Analytics and Foresight
The application of analytics methods to meet the needs of a business.
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Outlier Detection in Big Data
The analysis of a business’s data to gain insight into the business.
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Quality Improvement of Healthcare Services Through Data Analytics Processes
Business analytics refers to the use of statistical, computational and data mining techniques in functional areas of business such as marketing, finance, and operations to extract insights from data that can be used to make data driven business decisions.
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A Novel Web-Based Decision Support System for Aggregate Production Planning Problem
A discipline in the management science that focuses on understanding the business performance and developing strategies. It involves the use of technology, skills, and applications to obtain value from data by analytical modeling and quantitative techniques.
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A Cognitive Analytics Management Framework (CAM-Part 1): SAMAS Components, Leadership, Frontier Performance Growth, and Sustainable Shared Value
The integration of three intelligent processes (business information, business statistics, and business models) in order to make informed decisions.
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Big Data Analytics for Business
The broad use of data and quantitative analysis to make business decisions in corporations.
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Real-Time Big Data Warehousing
A process of continuously exploration of hidden patterns and insights in data.
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BIG Data: An Enabler in Developing Business Models in Cloud Computing Environments
Business analytics is the combination of skills, technologies, applications, and processes used by organizations to gain insight into their business-based data and statistics to drive business planning.
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