5 Emerging Trends in Analytics

Jane Griffin from Deloitte Consulting has come back from world travels with notes on five emerging analytics trends we can expect to see in 2012.

The first theme that surfaced with just about everyone I talked with – from other pundits to CEOs – was the increasing sophistication of analytics software and the need for a simplified approach to presenting the results of complex analysis. Analytics tool vendors have realized over the past couple of years that to be effective and reach the widest audience, analytics software should present the results of sophisticated analysis on large and complex data sets in an easy to read, actionable format. As a result, most tools today have advanced visualization capabilities – so much so that sophisticated visual presentation has become an absolute requirement for analytics tools.

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