Why Predictive Analytics Matter For A Business?


Predictive analytics, a branch of advanced analytics, predict future outcomes and trends. It encompasses the use of statistical algorithms, machine learning, data mining, and predictive analytics for extracting information to determine and provide the best assessment of how the market will unfold in the future.
There are no tools available in the market which can anticipate the future 100%, but a business can estimate its risk and take action to deal with it. Predictive analytics is useful in various business activities like foretelling consumer behavior and purchasing pattern, inputs demand from the supply chain, inventory and operations.



There are various predictive analytics software available in the market, some of them are:
·        IBM’s SPSS Statistics
·        SAS’s Advanced Analytics
·        RStudio
·        RapidMiner

FEW EXAMPLE OF HOW INDUSTRIES ARE USING PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS TO OPTIMISE OPERATION, INCREASE REVENUE AND REDUCE RISKS.

1.           Banking and Financial services sector use predictive analytics for detecting fraudulent activities, measuring credit risk, increase business opportunities and retain old clients.

2.           Retail sector utilizes predictive analytics for optimizing prices and merchandise planning, ascertaining which offers and promotional events are effective in garnering consumers.

3.           Energy industry embraces it for forecasting the future equipment and resources, reducing reliability and safety risk, and for enhancing the overall performance.

4.           Like many other sectors, the Government uses it for predicting consumer behavior and to strengthen the cybersecurity.

5.           The health insurance industry uses predictive analytics to know which patients are more vulnerable to chronic disease and are not adhering to the prescribed treatments.

6.           In the manufacturing sector, predictive analytics serves in recognizing the factors affecting the quality leading to a production failure, and ways to improve the service resource and distribution.

 IMPORTANCE OF PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS FOR A BUSINESS

v It is highly effective in dealing with the growing cybersecurity threats. As a high-performance, multiple analytics tools analyze all the action of clients to spot the abnormalities in real-time and prevent it in the future.

v Predictive analytics help to retain and attract, increase the consumers of a business. It is used for ascertaining the consumer's purchase or response and for promoting cross-sell opportunities.

v It increases the efficiency of daily business operation by forecasting the inventory and manages resources or predicts the demand in a particular season.

v Predictive analytics is incredibly valuable for anticipating any unfortunate contingency and how it will impact the business.

v It also benefits in forecasting ways for how to promote the goods and services to the customers and which tactics will best suit for marketing in a particular region or location.

v To envision how an investment in one area will impact the overall business performance.



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