First published by George Anadiotis for Big on Data, ZDNet, 21 Jun 19.

Prescriptive analytics is nothing short of automating your business. This was the silver lining as we explored the complexities of prescriptive analytics in our guide. While a lot of that complexity is something line of business and expert data scientists will have to deal with, IT is not out of the equation either.

Prescriptive analytics is hard, and there’s no silver bullet that can get you there without having gone through the evolutionary chain of analytics. You have to get the data collection and storage infrastructure right, the data modeling right, and the state classification and prediction right.

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