Big Data and its Effects on Society Kayla Seifert MGT-311 November 23, 2015 Big Data is a concept that has existed for a while but only gained proper attention a couple of years ago. One can describe Big Data as extremely large data sets that have grown so big that it becomes almost impossible to manage and analyze with traditional data processing tools. Enterprises can use Big Data by building new applications, improving the effectiveness, lowering the costs of their applications
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Business Intelligence: Business intelligence (BI) is a technology-driven process for analyzing data and presenting actionable information to help corporate executives, business managers and other end users make more informed business decisions. Business intelligence tools are a type of application software designed to retrieve, analyze, transform and report data for business intelligence. The tools generally read data that have been previously stored, often, though not necessarily, in a data
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ISSUE: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND ANALYTICS: FROM BIG DATA TO BIG IMPACT Hsinchun Chen Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 U.S.A. {hchen@eller.arizona.edu} Roger H. L. Chiang Carl H. Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0211 U.S.A. {chianghl@ucmail.uc.edu} Veda C. Storey J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302-4015 U.S.A. {vstorey@gsu.edu} Business intelligence
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analytics, they proved one of the fundamentals of the casino business wrong i.e., treating one customer differently than they treat another. Without data analytics, this would not have been possible. Also, linking customer satisfaction with the workers scores. This attempt by Harrah has improved the customer service scores and successively improved customer loyalty. Overall the article discusses the importance of data analytics in a business to generate customer-centered marketing strategies. The article
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Brief Overview of Business Intelligence and How Walmart Uses It Walmart is the biggest retailer in the world and handles more than one million customer transactions every hour and generates more than 2.5 petabytes of data storage (Venkatraman & Brooks, 2012). To put this into perspective, this data is equivalent to 167 times the number of books in America’s Library of Congress (Venkatraman & Brooks, 2012). So how can Wal-Mart use this massive amount of data and what useful information
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5" x 12" Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century Meet the people who can coax treasure out of messy, unstructured data. by Thomas H. Davenport and D.J. Patil 70 Harvard Business Review October 2012 hen Jonathan Goldman arrived for work in June 2006 at LinkedIn, the business networking site, the place still felt like a start-up. The company had just under 8 million accounts, and the number was growing quickly as existing members invited their friends and colleagues
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Introduction to Analytics Hal Hagood u01a1 The article used was found on Forbes and reports how UPS (United Parcel Service) uses predictive analytics to replace routine maintenance. It addresses a problem that UPS, one of the largest logistics operations in the world faces constantly as they deliver millions of packages every day, a feat which is a small miracle in and of itself. If even one of the trucks in their fleet has so much as even a minor breakdown, it can be a big problem with unpleasant
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workforce management today and are key intersection points between HR and the business. Key findings from Brandon Hall Group’s 2015 HCM Technology Trends study show that organisations in the UK are beginning to take advantage of technology to automate T&A. As a result, they are able to experience key improvements in reporting and analytics capabilities and better support collaboration with other areas of the business: • Technology. 67% of UK organisations that have workforce management strategies
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General comments | Research Proposal Research Topic: Business Intelligence goes Mobile: Business Analytics Anytime, Anywhere. Abstract: Mobile business intelligence refers to the circulation and dispersion of business data with the help of mobile devices such as smart phones, tablet computers etc. Business intelligence is a technique by digging out and excavate data and analysing it with the help of computer based technique. Corporates today are increasingly using
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The Brain Behind The Big, Bad Burger And Other Tales Of Business Intelligence Business intelligence systems have, for the most part, been dreary failures. But not in the restaurant industry. There, the payoffs have been significant. So what have you been doing wrong? And what are they doing right? Restaurant chains such as Hardee's, Wendy's, Ruby Tuesday, T.G.I. Friday's and others are heavy users of business intelligence software. They use BI to make strategic decisions, such as what new products
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