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Announcing: The 2018 Advanced and Predictive Analytics Market Study Report

Advanced and Predictive Analytics includes statistics, modeling, machine learning, and data mining used to analyze facts to make predictions about future or otherwise unknown events. The fifth annual report examines changing user perceptions and plans, as well as current and future industry capabilities. The 2018 report adds coverage of advanced model management, longevity of use, and budget criteria.

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Announcing: The 2018 Business Intelligence Competency Center Market Study Report

The fifth annual Business Intelligence Competency Center Market Study, a part of the Wisdom of Crowds series of research, examines the goals, resources, success rates, and funding methods of the Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC), a cross-functional group charged with defining, delivering, documenting, and promoting best-practice business intelligence (BI) solutions throughout the organization. The report addresses a wide range of BICC topics including reporting structure, funding models, current and future budgets, staffing and skills, activities, etc.

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The 2018 Enterprise Planning Market Study Report

The fourth annual Wisdom of Crowds® Enterprise Planning market study provides an in-depth analysis of enterprise planning software, including perceived importance, adoption trends, deployment options, and current and planned industry capabilities. Enterprise Planning is defined as a system of software used to plan for the internal and external factors that affect an organization, including strategic, operational and financial planning. Included are over 75 pages of in-depth market analysis, with over 45 charts and tables, and 13 vendor rankings - examining the nature of enterprise planning, exploring user sentiment and perceptions, the nature of current implementations, and plans for the future. It also includes cross-tab analysis, where relevant, to explore key differences using the collected demographics.

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Business Intelligence Team Lead, Large US Retailer

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VP Business Intelligence, Denihan Hospitality Group

"I find the Wisdom of Crowds reports so valuable because it allows me to compare how we are doing with our peers and the industry and provide the big picture of what is going on in the business intelligence / analytics industry”

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