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 ...

Understanding your customers when there’s only a handful isn’t too difficult. But as your company grows and the number of customers expands rapidly, it can be overwhelming to keep up with the change.

Balancing operational costs and business efficiency continues to be a significant challenge for enterprises everywhere. In the event of equipment failure, the resulting revenue and productivity losses ...

In this special guest feature, Will Fellers, Product Manager at Quantum Spatial Inc., explores different types of analytics – descriptive, predictive and prescriptive – and discusses how companies can ...

When it comes to maintenance methodology, there are two different approaches: the reactive approach and prescriptive action. The difference in attitudes can be the difference between a sustainable and ...

Descriptive analytics -- looking into what has happened in the past -- is commoditized. Traditional BI, reports, and dashboards are well understood and used in one way or another across a wide ...

In the world of HVAC, maintenance is no longer just about fixing what’s broken — it's about predicting what will break before it does. As buildings become smarter and more reliant on digital systems, ...

Prescriptive analytics is the final stage of business analytics. Learn more and read tips on how to get started with prescriptive analytics. Technology has given us the ability to forecast enterprise ...

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 ...

I was watching a short video by Babson College Prof. Thomas Davenport on the Harvard Business Review website recently and found it to be a good, simplified explanation of analytics. (Stop! Don't swipe ...