The biggest challenge for most organizations is to increase their analytical strength. This analytical strength can help them uncover new business insights can be uncovered with the goal to survive, to stay cost‐ effective and competitive, to react quickly, to increase customer care levels, to improve business processes, to personalize products, and so on. Data scientists, such as actuaries, economists, mathematical technicians, and epidemiologists, are typically responsible for applying sophisticated analytical techniques to uncover new business insights. Commonly, these data scientists have a technical background and have been trained in mathematics and statistics. Unfortunately, data scientists are expensive and there is a considerable shortage of good data scientists. This severely limits the potential analytical strength of an organization. To make data science affordable for every organization and to deploy data science across the entire organization and not only by the high priests of data science, other disciplines must be involved. It’s important that others outside the small group of data scientists are also able to deploy the same set of analytical techniques. The first and most obvious group are the business analysts. These analysts must be allowed and must be able to use the same analytical techniques and tools as the data scientists. Undoubtedly, by making the business analysts join the group of people doing data science work the analytical strength of an organization will increase, deepen, and expand. A side‐effect is that the boundary between business analysts and data scientists will blur. The two disciplines used to be quite complementary, but in the future the two will be more intertwined. Analytical solutions must support this new group of data scientists. Because business analysts don’t have the same background as data scientists, these solutions must be simplified and the analytical techniques must be integrated. This definitely raises the bar for analytical solutions. This whitepaper describes requirements for analytical solutions when they are used by data scientists and business analysts.
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