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IT Futures Please note  – this was written in 2012. The first forty years of the business use of IT has been dominated by process automation and labor displacement. Compared with what lies around the corner this is the equivalent of riding on horse-back, and while pleasant it is hardly…

Enterprise Analytics Enterprise analytics should deliver unambiguous models, avoid duplicated effort, provide ample mechanisms for monitoring model performance and resulting business performance, promote transparency, and support the discovery of opportunities and risks buried in data. We can state fairly categorically that this will not happen unless the analytical environment is integrated.…

[vc_button title=”Download Text Analytics Business Guide” target=”_blank” color=”default” href=”http://butleranalytics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Text-Analytics-Guide.pdf”] Excerpt: The business value of text analytics is fairly straightforward. The large amounts of text based data most organizations possess, acquired and managed at considerable cost, can be analysed in such a way that insights can be gained to improve the…

[vc_button title=”Download Prescriptive Analytics Guide” target=”_blank” color=”default” href=”http://butleranalytics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Prescriptive-Analytics-Guide.pdf”] Excerpt: After fifty years of using information technology to increase the efficiency of business processes we are now firmly in the era where technology is also being used to provide us with information. Business intelligence allows us to establish what has happened…

[vc_button title=”Download Business Analytics Yearbook” target=”_blank” color=”default” size=”default2″ href=”http://butleranalytics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/yb2015v2.pdf”] Excerpt: Business analytics technologies can conveniently be placed under the umbrella of Enterprise Decision Management (EDM). These systems exploit methods and technologies to improve the efficacy and efficiency of decision making through the organization. This is in contrast to traditional systems…

[vc_button title=”Download Decision Orient BPM Report” target=”_blank” color=”default” size=”default2″ href=”http://butleranalytics.com/wp-content/uploads/Decision-Oriented-Business-Process-Management.pdf”] Excerpt: The unit of work for many information workers and managers is the decision. Call center operatives spend most of their time deciding which products and services to offer a customer, and the deals that might be attractive. Managers move…

Click on image above to download full 10 page report. Excerpt Big data is driven by the rapidly falling cost of acquiring, managing and processing ever increasing amounts of data. Clearly we shouldn’t be accumulating more data simply because it is possible to do so, and the whole big data…