Preparing for Advanced Analytics

Businesses are moving beyond reporting and business intelligence to more sophisticated analytics. Experienced executives and newly minted MBAs alike are discovering the benefits of analytics and making moves to introduce these methods into their own arsenals. Yet these executives often find their IT organizations are resistant or simply unprepared to meet the challenge of supporting advanced analytics.

IT professionals who do not understand analytics terminology and support requirements can be viewed as behind the times or worse, putting themselves and their teams at risk.

Savvy IT professionals are preparing now for the analytics revolution.
Learn how you can be prepared when your company moves into the analytics age.

In this session, you will learn answers to questions like these:

• What are the benefits of advanced analytics?
• Statisticians, quants, data miners - what do they do?
• What do analysts expect from you?

About the speaker
Meta S. Brown promotes the use of business analytics. A hands-on analyst who has tackled projects with up to $900 million at stake, she is a recognized expert in cutting-edge business analytics. Ms. Brown has conducted over 4,000 hours of presentations about business analytics.

She has written guides on neural networks, quality improvement, statistical process control, and many other statistical methods. Her seminars have attracted thousands of attendees from across the United States and Canada, from novices to professors.