Business Analytics

Tools
Vlad Ana-Maria-Nicoleta
Matache Valentina
FILS MBAE 1261B
2018
Business Analytics

Business Analytics Tools

1. Board
2. Sisense
3. Dundas BI Presentation
4. Tableau Big Data Analytics
5. Microsoft Power BI content
6. IBM Cognos Analytics
7. Google Analytics

Conclusion
Bibliography 2
 What is Business
Analytics?

Business Analytics (BA)

1. Refers to the skills, technologies

and practices for continuous
investigation of past business
performance

2. Provides insight to drive business

planning

3. Is the subset of BI based on

statistics, prediction and 3
optimization
 Introduction to
Business Analytics
• Business Analytics

The use of analytical methods:

Analytics is the use of:
odata
oinformation technology 1. Either manually or automatically
ostatistical analysis 2. To derive relationships from data
oquantitative methods 3. It include the access & reporting
omathematical or computer-based
models

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Business
Analytics Tools

 The popularity of business

analytics tools have reached
a boiling point in recent years
 This change is driven by the
need to increase the depths
of functionality
 Gartner predicts that by 2020, more than 75% of large and
midsize global organizations will deploy advanced analytics
 State-of-the-art and popular analytics tools for business are
being developed

 The future of business analysis tools is becoming defined

 Over 100 new business by new applications
analytics (BA) tools have
entered the market within the
last 18 months 5
Board

1. Is a BI and performance management

software rolled into one

2. It is designed to provide business

intelligence, business analytics and
corporate performance management

3. The system is capable of capturing data

from virtually any source and come up
with full reporting

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 What is unique
about BOARD?
 Recommendations &
Data brushing
 Custom scripts for user
interactivity  Uncovering of hidden
relationships
 Data correction
 Flexible mobile
 Large screen automated platform
displays
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Sisense

a. Sisense provides a robust and

dynamic advanced analytics tool

b. Users can convert unstructured text

data into meaningful data for analysis
through its text analytics capabilities

c. This BA tools enables the use of

statistical functions such as
correlation, covariance and various
distributions accessible directly from
Sisense dashboards 8
What is unique
about SISENSE?
 Single-Stack architecture  Data crunching for beginners

 In-Chip Engine & Proprietary  Effective use of CPU cache

technology memory

 Optimal use of computational  Diverse data granularity

resources
 API-first approach for developers
 Minimal TOC
 A 90-minute real test-drive for
 Joining diverse tables and charts prospective clients 9

coming from multiple sources

Dundas BI

1. BI platform Dundas BI is a robust

tool that is designed to make
analytics and data access much
easier for businesses

2. It is preferred by both budding and

large businesses

3. The solution brings into play

numerous analytic tools through its
dashboards
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What is unique about
Dundas BI?
Recommendations & Data
brushing

Custom scripts for user Uncovering of hidden

interactivity relationships

Data correction Flexible mobile platform

Large screen automated

displays
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Tableau Big Data Analytics

1. Tableau provides strong statistical tools to

analyse and draw inferences from data

2. It enables users to forecast future trends

3. Tableau Big Data Analytics solution

provides in-depth analysis of social media
performance

4. The software is intuitive, facilitating ease-

of-use

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What is unique about
Tableau?
SAML authentication
 A pioneer of drag-and-drop
analytics Web authoring on mobile
devices
 Choosing between a 32-bit and 64-
bit runtime version of the product Tableau Public

 Dashboard-to-dashboard
interactions

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Microsoft Power BI

1. Power BI is a collection of software

services, apps, and connectors that
work together

2. Power BI lets you easily connect to

your data sources, visualize (or
discover) what’s important, and share
that with anyone or everyone you want

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What is unique about
Microsoft Power BI?

 Simple and free sharing

Non-technical and IT-free  Making use of all data sources

performance
 The largest number of customizable
Microsoft’s DAX query language visualizations

Power Query data sharing  Cost-effectiveness

Desktop app built into Excel  Curated data and Personalized views

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IBM Cognos Analytics

1. Smart BI software IBM Cognos

Analytics is designed to help
businesses determine and make
decisions quickly and effectively

2. It enables users to create, configure

dashboards and reports all

3. The solution is highly-scalable, able to

grow together with organizations

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What is unique about IBM
Cognos Analytics?

• Self-service analytics
• Query Studio
• Accurate and safe reporting
• Event Studio
• Intent-based process modelling • Extendable functionality

• Cross-department predictive
analyses
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Google Analytics

1. Popular free web analytics service

Google Analytics imposes BI standards

2. It uses a variety of funnel visualization

methods and creates data summaries on
robust dashboards

3. Its native tracking codes can load much

larger JavaScript files from its web
server, to each it sets individual variables

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What is unique about
Google Analytics?

Sets important data first

Bounce-rate examination
World’s best audience
insights
Ease of use
Information coming from
multiple channels

Shaping a marketing strategy

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 Conclusion

 Business analytics systems are

proliferating today

 Every BI analytics tool provider

is designing tools with greater
usability and self-service
analytics

 Taking steps to make these

changes helps users find quick
solutions and streamline
decision making overall
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• Challenges and Benefits of Deploying Big Data Analytics in the Cloud for Business Intelligence, 2017,
pag. 1117

• Fact - Centered ETL: A Proposal For Speeding Business Analytics Up, 2014, pag. 471

• Healthcare predictive analytics, 2018, pag. 750

• The impact of Business Intelligence on the quality of decision Making, 2015, pag. 1163

• The implications of Big Data analytics on Business Intelligence, 2016, pag. 221

• Analytic Business Processes: The Third Generation, 2004, pag.15

• A Survey of Open Source Tools for Business Intelligence, 2008, pag. 9

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