Business & finance
Find models that represent the various aspects of a business, such as its operations, marketing, and sales. Financial modeling involves using historical financial data and other relevant information to create projections of future financial performance, such as revenue, expenses, profits, and cash flow.
These analyses can help you plan for the future, make investment decisions, evaluate the impact of different business scenarios, understand how different factors affect overall performance, and identify areas where you can improve efficiency and profitability for yourself or your organization.
Modeling software as a service (SaaS) for revenue projections
‘Cloudify’ – a new verb in the English language signifying to design or adapt a resource or a process for operation in the cloud. See also cloudification (design, adaptation, modeling software for the cloud).
Prescriptive analytics & social network marketing
Are prescriptive analytics ‘the Final Frontier’ of analytics? This apparently is how market research firm Gartner sees this area, melding this third phase of business analytics ...
Green decision analysis & the long tailpipe
Going green is held to be ecologically sound and financially advantageous; and in many cases, it is. In many cases however, it’s also a decision involving a number of ...
Business impact analysis for business continuity for IT systems
It’s a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Understanding the business consequences of IT failure (or, let’s be positive, IT success) on business is essential in order to plan ...
The rise of decision analytics
Where did decision analytics come from? And where is it headed in the future? The term decision analysis was coined by Ronald A. Howard, Professor of Management Science and ...
The art & science of business intelligence
It’s the title of a book. But is it also a deeper observation about what it takes to put good business intelligence in place? Behind this apparently innocuous catch-all pairing ...
The basics of risk analysis in the enterprise
Risky business – bad news? Not necessarily. While the word risk has a negative connotation for some, it’s a source of business opportunity for others. Good risk analysis ...
