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How streaming analytics offers business value

Many analytics and BI tools limit your ability to get insight in time to make a critical business decision. Once you detect a pattern, you have to work with a data scientist to choose data sets for more analysis, clean the data of noise, and code a query, all while the data becomes less and less relevant with passing time.

This resource explains streaming analytics and describes how it can enable real-time decision-making based on current evidence. Learn how you can resolve business problems more quickly and make data-driven decisions. 

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