Prescriptive analytics has become a real competitive advantage for marketers. Here's why. Analytics has long been the backbone of marketing success. Analytics enables marketers to make data-driven ...

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 ...

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 ...

Big Data—information sets too large to be effectively computed on desktop systems—isn’t just the buzzword du jour. It provides an unprecedented ability for business and industry to precisely model the ...

While predictive analytics have been an ed tech buzzword in recent years, they are but a midpoint in the evolution of data analytics in higher education. What began as descriptive analytics, the ...

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 ...

The world is digitizing with increasing speed, and global interconnectivity is rising right along with it, generating abundant data. This data can facilitate more intelligent business decisions and ...

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 ...

Now and then, a terrific story falls through the cracks. But sometimes the topic is worth fighting for. That's the case when it comes to prescriptive analytics. Analyzing the data is one thing. Taking ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS ...