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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

CIO

What is data analytics? Data analytics is a discipline focused on extracting insights from data. It comprises the processes, tools and techniques of data analysis and management, including the collection, organization, and storage of data. What are the four types of data analytics?

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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. 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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The 4 pillars of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange: Customers share their successes

CIO

No longer a nebulous, aspirational term equated with the concept “never trust, already verify,” zero trust has evolved into a solid technology framework that enables proactive defense and digital transformation as organizations embrace the cloud and hybrid work models.

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Earthmover to bring petascale data tools to climate tech with $1.7M pre-seed

TechCrunch

Hamman , who previously worked at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, also foresaw how data tools could begin to change the field. The business world was benefiting from a slew of new tools that worked well for their data types. But none of those really exist for scientific data,” he said.

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Ascend.io lands $31M to automate data pipeline orchestration

TechCrunch

Ascend.io , a company developing data automation products for enterprise customers, has raised $31 million in a Series B round led by Tiger Global with participation from Shasta Ventures and existing investor Accel, it announced today. Rather, it was the ability to scale the productivity of the people who work with data.

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Business Analytics tools & use cases

Apiumhub

Today, businesses can collect data along every point of the customer journey. This information might include mobile app usage, digital clicks, interactions on social media and more, all contributing to a data fingerprint that is completely unique to its owner. Business analytics is simply about using data to generate insights.”.

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Business Analytics: ML in Action

Datavail

For eons, humans have gathered data to help them make sense of the world. That quest for information has evolved from studying the patterns of star systems to studying patterns found in the vast quantities of immense data lakes. The tools used to gather and investigate data have evolved, too.