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PASS BA Virtual Chapter
Presents:
“Data Analytics Explained for Business Leaders”
January 15, 2015
Email - [email protected]
PASS Business Analytics Updates
Chapter Leader – Dan English
Dan is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, author, on the
leadership team for the MN Microsoft BI User Group, and
is the Business Intelligence Practice Manager at Superior
Consulting Services in MN.
Chapter Co-Lead – Paras Doshi
Paras is a consultant at SolidQ, Microsoft Community
Contributor awardee and Blogger. He is passionate about
helping businesses extract valuable insights from data.
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Jan 15 – Business Analytics Explained for Business
Leaders
Abstract
The world is becoming more efficient. Today, seventy percent of the companies that
graced the Fortune 1000 list a mere decade ago have vanished. Agility and survival are
function of innovation, culture, and the ability to predict the future. To that end, data
analytics offers a lifeline, a means of survival that will drive productivity and continue to
disrupt and redefine business. However, the resources available to today’s business
leaders sit on two vastly different ends of the spectrum. On the one hand, highly
technical academic resources and on the other largely fluffy overviews of value
propositions and potentials. The state of the industry shouldn’t be surprising. The same
dynamics played out in early years of the internet. Software providers, technical leaders,
and consulting firms greatly benefit from mystifying the world of data analytics into
something that is incomprehensible. That lack of conceptual understanding is
incredibly risky and propels the cost of analytics initiatives upwards. This webcast aims
to bridge that gap between the technical data scientists and business leaders.
Ultimately, this understanding will help to: – Connect the strategic goals of business
leaders with the capabilities of technical advisers – Focus investments and initiatives
within analytics and technology – Distill immensely complex subject matter into
comprehensible examples – Accelerate the path to value and increase the ROI of
analytics initiatives
Presenter – Alex Jones is a Predictive Analytics Architect in the Oil and Gas industry
with a passion for distilling complexity into insights and evangelizing data science. His
work has been featured on KDNuggets and he was recognized by DataScienceCentral
as a top 180 blogger in 2014.
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