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Currently the world is composed of data that every day is being produced by businesses as well as individuals. According to a tally, in 2020 each Internet user created 1,7 MB of information every second, Google processed more than 40 000 queries, about 3 million emails were sent by people around the world. And those rates continue to rise rapidly.
This amount of data processing requires advanced analytic solutions, specifically big data analytics.
What is this?
Big Data Analytics (BDA) – is the complex of advanced analytic methods that are focused on the work with big and different size data (from terabytes to zettabytes) to uncover valuable information from structured, semi-structured and unstructured data sets from different sources. By using this tool, it is possible to uncover hidden patterns, unexplored correlations, market trends and customer preferences. BDA comes with technologies and methods like predictive analytics, statistic analysis, text analysis, data visualization, machine learning, artificial neural networks, spatial analysis, Data Mining, pattern recognition, simulation etc.
World data amount stupefies but opens huge capacities for business. For instance, in working with customers and their behavior. By collecting and analyzing data for each client it becomes possible to provide an individualized offer upon request. As a result, a company becomes more competitive, customer experience becomes higher and revenue is growing.
Some examples how BDA can help to improve customer experience: