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Business Analytics vs. Business Intelligence

December 7, 2009 by Dean Abbott
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I used to be one that thought the term "data mining" would stay as the description of the kind of analytic work I do. To a large degree it has, but there are always new spins on things, and it seems that quite often in the business world, Predictive Analytics or Business Analytics are the terms of the day. I just came across this post... [read more]

OLAP is Dead (Long Live Analytics)

November 27, 2009 by Timo Elliott
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The term OLAP or Online Analytic Processing was coined in 1993 by relational database technology pioneer Ted Codd (my claim to fame: we went to the same high school, Poole Grammar). The term was chosen to contrast with OLTP or online transaction processing, and was prompted by some clever marketing folks at Essbase, who wanted to... [read more]