Essays on Analytics

Why did Nationwide need an enterprise wide data Warehouse? Nationwide insurance company is one of the largest financial service company, with $23 billion in revenue and more than $1 60 billion in statutory assets. So in this large business nationwide insurance company experienced a various …

PEST analysis is a convenient method for analyzing the macro environ of an enterprise. The PEST analysis methodology is often used to assess the key rialto trends of the fervor, and the results can be used in the compilation of SWOT analysis.  PESTEL analysis tool …

Data mining is defined as “a process that uses statistical, mathematical, artificial intelligence, and machine-learning techniques to extract and identify useful information and subsequent knowledge from large databases, including data warehouses” (Turban & Volonino, 2011). The information identified using data mining includes patterns indicating trends, …

Case StudyWhat Can Businesses Learn From Text Mining? Text mining is the discovery of patterns and relationships from large sets of unstructured data – the kind of data we generate in e-mails, phone conversations, blog postings, online customer surveys, and tweets. The mobile digital platform …

Starbucks, as we all know, are one of the globally popular companies, but like everything else, it has its own weaknesses. Here I will suggest some solutions to help solve the problems faced in their inventory management processes. Starbucks follows the EOQ model, which involves …

New startups form limited liability companies (LLCs) and raise funding every day. Each startup needs a laundry list of technology to get up and running in a modern office setting. Luckily, we test plenty of new hardware, software and services in the PCMag Labs each month to …

This concept is up-growing one as the current data storage pattern utilized by the companies is not as productive as plotted. It is refers to following type of data 1) Traditional Enterprise Data: which includes customer related data ERP, CRM, web transaction 2) Machine Generated …

School of Business and Economics Indiana University South Bend K507–Enterprise Resource Planning – 2008 Fall – ERP Project Comparative analysis of ERP vendors: SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft Koenraad Adams, Eric Piazzoni, and In-Saeng Suh koenraadadams@hotmail. com, ericpz@gmail. com, isuh@iusb. edu Abstract This is a study …

Laura Brickman was glad she was almost done grocery shopping. The lines at the local ShopSense supermarket were especially long for a Tuesday evening. Her cart was nearly over? owing in preparation for several days away from her family, and she still had packing to …

There are two alternative plans in order to introduce customized shirt manufacturing in the factory. In the first plan, we are looking at the option where existing line is used with addition one new machine. In the second plan we will look at the option …

The amount and sort of knowledge being captured by firms these days is staggering. The abundance of information, combined with the poor availableness of powerful knowledge analysis tools, has given rise to a data rich but poor data condition. The widening gap between information and knowledge has generated a pressing want for brand spanking new techniques which can flip these immense amounts of knowledge into “golden …

The 2016 NFL regular season kicked off recently and in true sports fashion the bars are packed again on Sunday, Fan Duel commercials are playing every 15 minutes, and one analytics firm is using data to predict the outcome of NFL matchups with 80 per …

The near future of artificial intelligence (AI) won’t be defined by ushering in a race of sentient machines. While we’re inching closer to the goal of, the next era of AI will be more about imbuing the software and applications we use every day with …

The company Bloomberg is a privately held financial software, news, and data company. Primarily, Bloomberg is about the access, report, analysis and distribution of the highest quality data, news and analytics, faster and more accurate than any other organization. According to Bloomberg’s official website, “In …

Almost every organization, be it a corporation, non-profit or government strives to be more effective and more efficient. Organizations often make important strategic and operational decisions based on how different alternatives will increase or decrease efficiency or effectiveness. But many organizations and managers struggle to …

KFC/Pizza Hut makes efficiency gains with Zap Business Intelligence Businesses become more agile, responsive and performance-focused Situation There are over 120 KFC and Pizza Hut outlets in Singapore, employing about 5,000 staff. Both brands also offer Singapore-wide delivery services. In the face of rapid business …

How can you be sure your content is worth the time and money you're investing in creation and marketing? Your epic content and high traffic counts should feed your company's bank account, not drain it. Auditing the return on investment (ROI) of your blog posts and …

The following excerpt is from Wendy Keller’s book . Buy it now from  |  |Did you like math in school? I didn’t, but I sure do like it now. As entrepreneurs, how much you bring in (gross profit) gets reduced by what it costs you to attract that …

It’s true every sales team has that one rep who crushes every monthly goal, while others struggle and have a tendency to underperform. The 80/20 rule is never truer than in sales.  But a strong manager is one who understands what attributes make the all-star …

COURSEWORK BRIEF This coursework is worth 60% of the total module marks available for this module. This is an individual piece of work. You have been asked to review and propose a course of action for a large online retailer (www. argos. co. uk) as …

If you are running a social campaign, you have to be analyzing your account's data. To do that, you have to do some data mining. Unfortunately, it is a time consuming process that brands often hire whole teams to manage, rather than entrusting it to …

CHAPTER: 1 INTRODUCTION History of Indian Pharma Industry The Pharmaceutical industry in India is the world’s third-largest in terms of volume and stands 14th in terms of value. According to Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, the total turnover of India’s pharmaceuticals industry between 2008 and September 2009 …

Google analytics is a software program provided by Google which helps firms track traffic to a website. The program provides detailed reports that show how the traffic was generated, and which ads are preforming the best. It tracks them from different ads points such as …

Google should provide its users an able substitute of desktop software developed by Microsoft. Its Google Apps could be extended to the use of Office software like spreadsheets and word processors. The refined version of these services can pose a serious fight to software giant …

As technology-savvy, data-driven marketers, our job is to get out the right message, in front of the right audience, at the right time, to drive the right (desired ) onsumer behavior.Related: And we have to do that more efficiently and more effectively than we've seen traditional approaches doOur job, then, isn't easy …

Entrepreneur Media recently organized the 6th Annual Convention for entrepreneurs and startups on 23rd-24th August at, Hotel Pullman, Aerocity, New Delhi. This two-day conference saw some of the brightest minds of India – veterans and young ones alike, sharing their experience in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, …

IBM is one of the most successful technology and consulting companies in the world. In 2012, its brand name is in second place in international brand equity rankings, just behind Coca Cola. With its 433,362 employees it is operating in 170 countries and able to …

During the years 2001 to 2004 of gradual development of Jive Systems, the company solidified its status as the fastest growing SBS Company in the industry, doubling the size of its workforce since 2008 and increasing full year revenue 85% from 2008 to 2009. Throughout …

Is what is being taught in the Cape Peninsula University of Technology relevant in the testing industry? The Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) is a tertiary institution of higher learning and technology. The institution’s main goal is towards education and innovation in the technology …

Facebook is more than just the largest social-media platform on the planet. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based behemoth also uses its vast resources to help app developers make super-smart products.If you haven’t already, say hello to . Since launching in 2015, more than 800,000 unique apps …