business analytics - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Rinehart's Roy Hill mine digs deep into the data

  ​Relatively speaking, the neighbourhood around the Roy Hill mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia is getting crowded.

• Businesses turn to the sciences for answers in analytics

  What do scientists know about everyday business challenges? A lot more than you think, according to a new report. Deloitte Analytics Trends 2016 report has found data analytics in the science world can help solve business problems.

• AGL appoints CFO to head IT

  Energy company, AGL, on Monday announced that its current CFO, Brett Redman, will lead its new finance and technology group.
  

• Dell brings advanced visualization to analytics platform

  Dell Software today took the wraps off a partnership with data visualization specialist Datawatch. The partnership brings interactive visualization and dashboarding capabilities to Dell's Statistica advanced analytics platform and is designed to better position it for use by business analysts and other end users.

• AGL CIO departs in exec restructure

  AGL CIO, Owen Coppage, will leave the organisation following an executive restructure announced on Thursday. Coppage has been CIO at AGL since 2005.
  

• Business analysts: role changes require new skill sets

  During the past year, CIO.com has examined the critical role that business analysts play inside today's corporate IT environments, straddling the bridge between IT and business teams at project time. We looked at what business analysts actually did for software implementation projects; explained why BAs were so important for CIOs and IT; identified the six secrets of top-notch business analysts; and showed how BAs can help drive technology strategy that increases revenue.

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