Analytics Tools: Analytics (or Decision Sciences) Companies & Jobs

Analytics (or Decision Sciences) Companies & Jobs

Analytics comes from the Ancient Greek word ἀναλυτικά or analutiká which means “principles of mathematical analysis”. Analytics, the ‘science of analysis’ combines mathematics, statistics and operations research to analyze business problems and forward suitable solutions to enhance the productivity of business operations in the future, has recently become quite a buzzword in various business circles. A simple search on Google Trends shows this upward trend in the popularity of the word

The country leading this revolution in Analytics, no points for guessing, is India. The top 3 cities where Analytics is searched the most are Bangalore, New Delhi & Mumbai (All three Indian cities). Some other facts about Analytics:

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2.5 quintillion bytes Data created every day. In fact, 90% of all data was created in the past two years
30 billion The pieces of content being shared on facebook every month
34,000 Tweets are being sent every second
8,000 Campaigns created by Bharti Airtel every month based on analytics
6 billion Call records stored by Reliance Communications in one month
60% Is how much a retailer in the US can increase his operating margin by using Big Data
$300 billion Savings possible in healthcare costs in the US with the use of Big Data
40% The projected growth in data from 2011 to 2015

Source: McKinsey, IBM, companies

We wanted make a list of different companies. We start with India, we will later move on to other countries. Shown above is the landscape of all the Analytics companies