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RIVING BETTER BUSINESS DECISIONS
MARCH/APRIL 2016
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It's all about the data in the Internet Age
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Executive Edge
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on cloud analytics
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INSIDE STORY
Cloud: sky’s not the limit
In the beginning, there was data. Then
along came “analytics” to try and make
sense of, and ascertain insight from, the
data. Then in rolled “big data,” a tsunami
of data of such grand proportions that most
folks crowned it “Big Data,” with capital let-
ters, in a show of respect for its massive
size. Big Data, in turn, begot the “data scien-
t
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INSIDE STORY Cloud: sky’s not the limit
CONTENTS DRIVING BETTER BUSINESS DECISIONS
XLMINER®: Data Mining Everywhere Predictive Anal
26 82 DEPARTMENTS 2 Inside Story 8
ANALYTIC SOLVER® PLATFORM From Solver to Full-Po
EXECUTIVE EDGE Cloud analytics: a disruptive tec
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Web Services to build a secure cloud service for
EXECUTIVE EDGE to academic customers at minimal
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systems. However, many companies often perfor
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and Python and Hadoop architectures, the field of
DELMAN INALISTS CONGRATULATIONS TO
Hadoop brings big data. SAS brings
AUTOMATED ANALYTICS Predictive analytics in t
technology makes it much more practical to scratc
A N A LY T I C S I N T H E C LO U D For most
The better strategy is to start collect- ing
A N A LY T I C S I N T H E C LO U D over thousa
This, of course, stifles innovation; af- ter
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DEMOCRATIZATION OF ANALYTICS more complicated
story across all the domains of the enter-
DEMOCRATIZATION OF ANALYTICS intelligence reso
help maintain relevant versions at the source,
DEMOCRATIZATION OF ANALYTICS the governmental d
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cultivation and plant thinning in high-value crop
AG R I C U LT U R E & A N A LY T I C S of the a
as components of original farm equipment or separ
HUMAN RESOURCES ANALYTICS How to turn organiz
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ORGANIZATIONAL DATA connected to a range of inf
a number of levels to detail work that needs to b
ORGANIZATIONAL DATA
analytics need to reflect that. Interactive image
L E A R N I N G C U LT U R E Training strategy
(statistics, economics, artificial
TRAINING STRATEGY artificially constructed busi
Ideally, such professionals should vol- unte
VEHICLE ROUTING Higher expectations drive tra
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VEHICLE ROUTING predictable and expedient custo
very accurate for trucks, which travel more slowl
VEHICLE ROUTING needs that demand system integr
(think of Home Depot, Walmart, Coca- Cola, Walgre
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