Using Analytics to Equip Communities for Data-Driven Decisions

Read this report from Frost & Sullivan to learn how forward-looking organizations are realizing powerful analytic capabilities, without committing to large capital expenditures, by obtaining analytics as a cloud-delivered service. Find out how city IT managers can determine if this is the right approach, and understand the value of each type of analytics a smart city uses, including:

• Geospatial analytics - enabling visualization of events and conditions as they happen in specific places, and how they may change over time
• Descriptive analytics - providing situational awareness and an understanding of historical trends
• Predictive analytics - developing insight into possible future conditions or events, and their potential impact
• Prescriptive analytics - enabling insight into the likely results of decisions, and suggesting the optimal path to achieve desired outcomes