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What is a business intelligence analyst? A key role for data-driven decisions

CIO

Business intelligence (BI) analysts transform data into insights that drive business value. What does a business intelligence analyst do? The role is becoming increasingly important as organizations move to capitalize on the volumes of data they collect through business intelligence strategies.

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Business intelligence and analytics firm Pyramid Analytics raises $100M

TechCrunch

Business intelligence is an increasingly well-funded category in the software-as-a-service market. By handling large amounts of data to analyze and benchmark lines of business, BI promises to help identify, develop, and otherwise create new revenue opportunities.

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OTA Insight books $80M for its hospitality business intelligence tools, used by 55K hotel properties globally

TechCrunch

Now, OTA Insight — a company that builds business intelligence tools for one of the key sectors in that space, hotels — is announcing a round of funding as it too picks up more business on the upswing. And yet after they arrived they could see that a lot of hotels had spaces and were drastically dropping prices.

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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

CIO

More specifically: Descriptive analytics uses historical and current data from multiple sources to describe the present state, or a specified historical state, by identifying trends and patterns. In business analytics, this is the purview of business intelligence (BI). Data analytics vs. business analytics.

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The Evolution of the Data Warehouse in the Big Data Era

Dell EMC

About 20 years ago, I started my journey into data warehousing and business analytics. Over all these years, it’s been interesting to see the evolution of big data and data warehousing, driven by the rise of artificial intelligence and widespread adoption of Hadoop. READ MORE.

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Top LinkedIn Groups in 2014 for Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science

CTOvision

It it he analyzes the Top 30 LinkedIn Groups for Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science. We update our analysis of Top 30 LinkedIn Groups for Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science (Dec 2013) and find several interesting trends. Data Scientists: 114%.

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Pentaho 5.3 Continues To Deliver On Big Data Analytics With Scale Including AWS Redshift and Impala

CTOvision

of their open data platform including new features which will be of high interest to any enterprise with data (all enterprises!). From their press release: Pentaho to Deliver On Demand Big Data Analytics at Scale on Amazon Web Services and Cloudera. Enterprise Cloud Analytics with Amazon Redshift. “We

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