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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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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).

Analytics 338
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Personalized Insurance: Auto and Telematics, Health, and Other Success Stories

Altexsoft

In today’s society, insurers can no longer ignore the mounting expectations of customers. Clients now expect insurers to provide different levels of personalization that are fast, adaptable, and up to date. Is personalized insurance really the future of insurance? What is personalized insurance, and why is it important?

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

The term “Big Data” has become synonymous with this evolution. But still, many of our customers continue to ask, “What is Big Data?”, “What are its use cases?”, and “What is its business value?”. What is Big Data? To gain value from this data, you must choose an alternative way to process it.”

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Tibco: Business intelligence and analytics provider

CTOvision

Their solutions have served business users, including the more advanced statisticians and data scientists but also the average user. We track Tibco in our Disruptive IT Directory in the category of Business Intelligence and Analytics Companies. For more info see Tibco.com.

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Tibco: Business intelligence and analytics provider

CTOvision

Their solutions have been applied across multiple industries, with use cases and reference architectures available for Airlines, Banking, Capital Markets, Government, Healthcare, Insurance, Life Sciences, Logistics, Manufacturing, Oil and Gas, Rail, Retail, Telecommunications and Utilities. For more info see Tibco.com.

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Real estate CIOs drive deals with data

CIO

Empowering agents with data Re/Max’s Ligon, who previously served as CIO of Prudential Real Estate and Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, oversees a cloud estate that includes Oracle Financials, Personify for membership management, and Inside Real Estate, a third-party industry SaaS platform tailored for brokers and agents.