In this special guest feature, Will Fellers, Product Manager at Quantum Spatial Inc., explores different types of analytics – descriptive, predictive and prescriptive – and discusses how companies can ...

We’ve all heard the phrase “data-driven decisions” in reference to organizational leaders aspirations' to use hard facts and figures to inform their business decisions. In higher education, the core ...

Troy Segal is an editor and writer. She has 20+ years of experience covering personal finance, wealth management, and business news. Amilcar has 10 years of FinTech, blockchain, and crypto startup ...

Improved interoperability can lead to greater connectivity that produces real-time data to enrich enterprise analytics tools—optimizing prescriptions, and ultimately producing better outcomes. The ...

One of the key concepts of the acclaimed science fiction book series Foundation, first published in the 1940s by Isaac Asimov, is the ability to predict human behavior. It imagined a new field, dubbed ...

Here we explore the ways predictive analytics and prescriptive analytics are being used in the call center today, and trends to watch for tomorrow. Predictive analytics can help evaluate behavioral ...

Nasheb Ismaily is a seasoned big data and cloud software engineer. He currently works for Cloudera as a senior solutions engineer. As federal agencies grapple with increasing demands to meet the ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet / TechRepublic special feature, explores how you set up an analytics infrastructure that sees around corners and gives you options to avoid a head-on crash. Read ...

Descriptive analytics -- looking into what has happened in the past -- is commoditized. Traditional BI, reports, and dashboards are well understood and used in one way or another across a wide ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. Predictive analytics is a method of data analysis used within ...