The term ‘Advanced Analytics’ is an encompassing one and includes in its scope components like – Predictive Analytics, Simulation and Optimization. Advanced analytics differs from its traditional counterpart through the capacity to focus on future in terms of occurrences, audience behavior and delivering businesses with the support to run ‘what-if’ analyses for better insight at the changes made and how, in turn, such changes may affect strategy development.
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