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What is a business intelligence analyst? A key role for data-driven decisions

CIO

Business intelligence (BI) analysts transform data into insights that drive business value. What does a business intelligence analyst do? The role is becoming increasingly important as organizations move to capitalize on the volumes of data they collect through business intelligence strategies.

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Business intelligence and analytics firm Pyramid Analytics raises $100M

TechCrunch

Business intelligence is an increasingly well-funded category in the software-as-a-service market. By handling large amounts of data to analyze and benchmark lines of business, BI promises to help identify, develop, and otherwise create new revenue opportunities.

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Harbr raises $38.5M to help enterprises exchange and share big data troves securely

TechCrunch

Today, a new London startup called Harbr , which has built a secure platform to enable big data exchange, is announcing a big round of funding to tap into that demand. The idea is to make that data ready and secure for enterprise data exchange, either with other parts of your own large organization, or with third parties.

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Meltwater, the media monitoring startup, gets a $65M investment from Verdane

TechCrunch

Meltwater, which first made its name around media monitoring and then got active in business intelligence using AI and big data analytics techniques, is picking up a new investor.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations.

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OTA Insight books $80M for its hospitality business intelligence tools, used by 55K hotel properties globally

TechCrunch

Now, OTA Insight — a company that builds business intelligence tools for one of the key sectors in that space, hotels — is announcing a round of funding as it too picks up more business on the upswing.

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Data Analytics vs Business Intelligence: How Are They Different?

Daffodil Software

Big data adoption is increasing rapidly across organizations of all sizes. However, the method and distinction between obtaining Business Intelligence (BI) and employing Data Analytics (DA) to make actual business decisions with an impact are getting lost in translation.