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Business Analytics tools & use cases

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More data is available to businesses than ever, which is why business analytics is a growing field. But how and why professionals use data to reach decisions varies depending on the industry. In this article we will discuss business analytics tools and use cases. “The What is Business Analytics?

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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

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

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Some of the top BI certifications include: Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP) IBM Data Analyst Professional Certificate Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate QlikView Business Analyst SAP Certified Application Associate: SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.3

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

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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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Optimizing The Data Warehouse: A Big Data Blueprint from Pentaho

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We previously wrote about the Pentaho Big Data Blueprints series, which include design packages of use to enterprise architects and other technologists seeking operational concepts and repeatable designs. Pentaho simplifies offloading to Hadoop and speeds development and deployment time by as much as 15x versus hand-coding approaches.

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Which Government, Non-Profit and NGO Have Big Data/CDH Lessons Learned To Share?

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Successfully deploying Hadoop as a core component or enterprise data hub within a symbiotic and interconnected big data ecosystem; integrating with existing relational data warehouse(s), data mart(s), and analytic systems, and supporting a wide range of user groups with different needs, skill sets, and workloads.

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A look at the Hadoop Big Data Reservoir with Platfora’s Peter Schlampp

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By Ryan Kamauff Peter Schlampp, the Vice President of Products and Business Development at Platfora, explains what the Hadoop Big Data reservoir is and is not in this webinar that I watched today. Knowing what the HDR is and is not is key to pulling out business intelligence insights and analytics.