It is a known fact that development of sports activities is not a top priority in the national budget of most of the developing countries. It can also be established that sports activities are not an active part of the eductional system of most developing countries. Given this backdrop, a natural question that comes to mind is: “Will developed countries reap all the benefits of Sports Analytics?”

According to a study stemming from the American Management Association that surveyed about 790 executives in various sectors, data and analytics are currently quite valuable to 58 percent of companies. In a similar vein, 82 percent of those questioned stated that these tools will become important at some point in the next five years.

Predictive analytics in the cloud is becoming mainstream, with broader and accelerating adoption. This is shown by the research completed by Decision Management Solutions about Predictive Analytics in the Cloud.

Analytics has transformed big data at Shell Exploration and Production into sound exploration decisions producing high-quality wells, thus reducing costs and lowering environmental impact.

The airline industry has always been known for creating a lot of data and for airline companies the potential benefits when applying big data correctly are tremendous. From the moment a customer books a flight until the moment the airplane is in the air, data is continuously being created and this data can be turned into information to improve your travel journey and improve revenue for the airline companies.

Data Driven Business recently conducted interviews with text analytics professionals from a number of leading companies and identified 10 trends in text analytics that can be observed over the next 6-12 months.

In recent months, analytics and big data have begun to truly assert their dominance in the field of business technologies. According to Information Management, recent findings by Ventana Research point out that analytics ranked as the most important priority of respondents.