The Road to Data-Driven Decision Making: 1) Enhance Intelligence 2) Delve into Big Data 3) Leverage the Cloud 4) Build for the Future

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The Road to Data-Driven
Decision Making
The world is awash in information of all types,
promising a competitive edge to businesses
that make the right investment. Yet unlocking
insights can be tantamount to tea-leaf reading.
Here are four approaches to help companies
navigating the chaos to a reality of data-driven
business decisions.
A manufacturer can run an additional data
warehouse in parallel to better analyze supply
chain and quality control data, identifying
gaps and improving efficiencies.
Enhance Intelligence❶
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With cloud-based resources,
Investment banks could conduct
real-time analytics to increase
their portfolio performance and
responsiveness to market shifts.
Microsoft offers a range of data analytics and business intelligence products to
help companies make the most of their existing resources and build flexible
solutions that grow with the needs of their business.
For more information on Microsoft’s data analytics solutions, download the
Modern Data Warehouse White Paper.
Leverage
the Cloud
Retail chains looking for deeper insights
could siphon off call center and social
media tracking data into a data mart,
where it can be manipulated and
scrutinized for new insights.
Delve into Big Data
existing structured
data
existing skills
advanced analytics
predictive insights
internal
data
external
data
third-party
data
structured
data
real time analytics
scalability affordability agility
unstructured
data
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greater
efficiencies
additional
opportunities
structured
data
unstructured
data
modern
data mart
By consolidating resources to one platform,
research facilities could reduce costs and
gain greater flexibility with the storing and
processing of data.
Build for the Futureconsolidate
resources
reduce costs
maximize control
increase agility
Enhance Intelligence Leverage the CloudDelve into Big Data Build for the Future
The size of digital
universe by 2020:
of current data
is less than two
years old
44ZB
90%
projected shortfall of demand for
trained data scientists in 2018
90%
4%
6%
active social
media users
2.3Bmobile
users3.8B
Organizations focused on data-
based decision making had:
higher
productivity
rates
higher
profits
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