Research challenges and opportunities in business analytics

Research and Pedagogy in Business Analytics: Opportunities and Illustrative Examples

In recent times, business analytics and big data have gainedmomentumboth in industry practice and academic research. The objective of this paper is to provide both a research and teaching introduction to business analytics in the context of both current and prospective perspective of the business analytics domain. It begins by providing a quick overview of the three types of analytics. To assis...

Guest Editorial: Visual Analytics in Multimedia - Opportunities and Research Challenges

Visual analytics in healthcare - opportunities and research challenges

As medical organizations modernize their operations, they are increasingly adopting electronic health records (EHRs) and deploying new health information technology systems that create, gather, and manage their information. As a result, the amount of data available to clinicians, administrators, and researchers in the healthcare system continues to grow at an unprecedented rate. However, despit...

Advanced analytics: opportunities and challenges

Purpose – Advanced analytics-driven data analyses allow enterprises to have a complete or “360 degrees” view of their operations and customers. The insight that they gain from such analyses is then used to direct, optimize, and automate their decision making to successfully achieve their organizational goals. Data, text, and web mining technologies are some of the key contributors to making adv...

Business Analytics: Current State & Challenges

At present time and state of the market where businesses and organizations are striving hard to survive and improve performance due to high availability of similar products and services, business processes or products are playing less and less significant role when it comes to differentiate oneself from the others. As a result, more and more firms are leaning towards selecting one or a few dist...