Business Analytics

A characteristic or a quantity of interest that can take on different values

• variety

• variable

• observation

set of values corresponding to a set of variables

• variety

• variable

• observation

Collected from several entities at the same time or approximately at the same point

• Time series Data

• Cross sectional Data

• Approximate Series Data

may include the use of correlation analysis or past trends to forecast corporate sales

• Product profitability analysis

• Predictive sales analysis

• Client profitability analysis

entails assessing each product individually rather than establishing profitability overall at a company

• Product profitability analytics

• Client profitability analytics

• Cash flow analytics

assesses a business value drivers or the key "levers" the organization needs to pull achieve its goals

• Shareholder value analytics

• Cash flow analytics

• Value driven analytics

Modular component of Oracle's integrated Family of business intelligence software application.

• IBM Congos Finance

• SAP ERP Financial Analytics

• Oracle Financial Analytics

• NetSuite

allows developer to interface with programs developed in different languages , which makes it possible to harness the unique strengths of each language for various purposes.

• IBM Congos Finance

• Oracle Financial Analytics

• MATLAB

• NetSuite

The third and most interesting dimension of big data analytics is the prescriptive level.

• Predictive

• Prescriptive

• Descriptive

Data collected from a subset of the population

• Random sampling

• Sample

• Population Data