What is Predictive Analytics?

I just saw this link about the difference between BI and Predictive Analytics. This comes on the heels of a meeting I had with UCSD Extension folks, talking about predictive analytics and data mining in the context of teaching courses for professionals, and this topic came up: how is predictive analytics different from BI?First, I’d like to applaud the author, Vladimir Stojanovski, for

I just saw this link about the difference between BI and Predictive Analytics. This comes on the heels of a meeting I had with UCSD Extension folks, talking about predictive analytics and data mining in the context of teaching courses for professionals, and this topic came up: how is predictive analytics different from BI?First, I’d like to applaud the author, Vladimir Stojanovski, for