Six Business Intelligence Predictions For 2016

Prakash Nanduri:

• Prediction 1: The big bang you hear is the explosion of innovation. 
• Prediction 2: We must adapt or die. 
• Prediction 3: Who’s BI will you buy?
• Prediction 4: Enough about data – where’s the information?
• Prediction 5: Death by desktop.
• Prediction 6: We’ll see just as many CDO’s hired as fired!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/groupthink/2015/12/17/six-business-intelligence-predictions-for-2016/

Business Analytics - Business Intelligence

Nice BA - BI articles...

4 Key Benefits of Business Analytics 

http://www.techopedia.com/2/30429/it-business/business-intelligence-bi/the-4-key-benefits-of-business-analytics?utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_medium=best&utm_source=07302014

Can Big Data Analytics Close the Business Intelligence Gap?

http://www.techopedia.com/2/30430/it-business/business-intelligence-bi/can-big-data-analytics-close-the-business-intelligence-gap

Social Media Business Intelligence and Data Visualization

Facebook:    56% Male   /   41% Female    /    3% Unknown



More at:  http://www.business2community.com/social-media/10-benefits-social-media-business-every-skeptic-know-0955900#!bm6usR

Business Intelligence Market Shifts from Indeed.com and SQL Magazine

How does analytics differ from business intelligence? 

Analytics means interacting with information at the speed of business, continuous iterative data exploration, and fact-based decision making using statistical and quantitative analysis, explanatory, predictive and prescriptive modeling. 

Analytics is closely related to operational management science. 

Where traditional business intelligence was historically focused on measuring past performance with querying, reporting, OLAP, and dashboards answering what happened, how many, how often and where type questions. 

Analytics strives to answer why, and forward looking questions such as what if these trends continue, what will happen next, and what is the best that can happen?

See complete article at: http://sqlmag.com/business-intelligence/business-intelligence-market-shifts

Validate your feelings with BI

We want to make effective decisions in life.

BI helps validate our 'gut feeling.'

Reference 'The Way Humans Think'
http://smartdatacollective.com/ray-major/198061/way-humans-think

Carolina Code Bootcamp 2014 - CPCC Levine Campus

• Geo Spatial Data... check
• Bootstrap 101... check
• DAX Patterns... check
• Data Management & Data Warehousing... check
• Big Data's Deal... check

Above are only a small portion of the Carolina Code Camp 2014 sessions that I could attend.

Hundreds of Code Camp Attendees

DAX Patterns for Everyday Use - Javier Guillen

BI Core

BI Applications and the Core

BI tools comprise a series of applications that enable organizations to make better decisions by providing accurate, dependable, consistent, and understandable data and reports in a useful format.

Basically, BI means:

• getting the right information to the right people 
• at the right time 
• to support better decision-making and 
• gain competitive advantage.

What will the market size be in the future?
What will be the growth rate be?
What are the key market trends?
What is driving this market?
What are the challenges to market growth?
Who are the key vendors in this market space?
What are the market opportunities and threats faced by the key vendors?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the key vendors?

Reference: http://www.heraldonline.com/2014/04/04/5838297/research-and-markets-global-business.html?sp=/100/773/385/#storylink=cpy