Markets have been more volatile than ever. It creates a need for decision makers to utilize technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to better understand the external factors that impact their business. By identifying these factors, organizations can better plan for changing market environments and seize market opportunities. However, manual modeling is a time-consuming process and results in a limited number of models and tests. Also, updating those models is...
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Topics:
embedded analytics,
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
AI & Machine Learning
Ventana Research recently announced its 2023 Market Agenda for Analytics, continuing the guidance we have offered for nearly two decades to help organizations derive optimal value from technology investments to improve business outcomes.
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Topics:
embedded analytics,
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Data,
Digital Technology,
natural language processing,
Process Mining,
Analytics & Data,
Collaborative & Conversational Computing
Organizations conduct data analysis in many ways. The process can include multiple spreadsheets, applications, desktop tools, disparate data systems, data warehouses and analytics solutions. This creates difficulties for management to provide and maintain updated information across multiple departments. Our Analytics and Data Benchmark Research shows that organizations face a variety of challenges with analytics and business intelligence. One-third of participants find it difficult to integrate...
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Topics:
embedded analytics,
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
natural language processing,
AI & Machine Learning
Embedded business intelligence (BI) continues to transform the business landscape, enabling organizations to quickly interpret data and convert it into actionable insights. It allows organizations to extract information in real time and answer wide-ranging business questions. Embedding analytics helps tackle the issue of extracting information from data which is a time-consuming process. Our research shows organizations spend more time cleaning and optimizing data for analysis rather than...
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Topics:
embedded analytics,
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
natural language processing,
Streaming Analytics,
AI & Machine Learning
In today’s data-driven world, organizations need real-time access to up-to-date, high-quality data and analysis to keep pace with changing market dynamics and make better strategic decisions. By mining meaningful insights from enterprise data quickly, they gain a competitive advantage in the market. Yet, organizations face a multitude of challenges when transitioning into an analytics-driven enterprise. Our Analytics and Data Benchmark Research shows that more than one-quarter of organizations...
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Topics:
embedded analytics,
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
IBM,
IBM Watson,
AI & Machine Learning
IBM Planning Analytics with Watson is a comprehensive, cloud-based business planning application that supports what Ventana Research calls integrated business planning. We coined this term in 2007 to describe a high-participation approach to business planning that integrates strategy, operations and finance. Our Next Generation Business Planning Benchmark Research demonstrated the value of IBP: Organizations that link planning processes get better results. Sixty-six percent of organizations...
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Topics:
Predictive Analytics,
Office of Finance,
embedded analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Business Planning,
Financial Performance Management,
Watson,
Digital transformation,
digital finance,
AI & Machine Learning,
profitability management
If you’ve ever been to London, you are probably familiar with the announcements on the London Underground to “mind the gap” between the trains and the platform. I suggest we also need to mind the gap between data and analytics. These worlds are often disconnected in organizations and, as a result, it limits their effectiveness and agility.
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Topics:
embedded analytics,
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Data Governance,
Data Management,
data operations,
Analytics & Data
Organizations are managing and analyzing large datasets every day, identifying patterns and generating insights to inform decisions. This can provide numerous benefits for an organization, such as improved operational efficiency, cost optimization, fraud detection, competitive advantage and enhanced business processes. By bringing the right, actionable data to the right user, organizations can potentially speed up processes and make more effective operational decisions.
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Topics:
embedded analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Internet of Things,
Streaming Analytics,
AI & Machine Learning
When I looked at the state of analytics recently, it was clear that analytics are not as widely deployed within organizations as they should be. Only 23% of participants in our Analytics and Data Benchmark Research reported that more than one-half of their organization’s workforce are using analytics. There are many elements to becoming a data-driven organization, as my colleague Matt Aslett points out, but analytics are a necessary component. Our research shows that organizations recognize the...
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Topics:
embedded analytics,
Analytics,
Analytics & Data
Organizations are collecting vast amounts of data every day, utilizing business intelligence software and data visualization to gain insights and identify patterns and errors in the data. Making sense of these patterns can enable an organization to gain an edge in the marketplace and plan more strategically.
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Topics:
embedded analytics,
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
AI & Machine Learning