Business Analytics Quotes

You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.

Planes don't fly, trains don't run, banks don't operate without much of what IBM does.

Data drives success. That is how we began our success with eSpeed. It was always based on the data.

Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis: unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.

Like Netflix, Looker started as nothing more than an idea. Lloyd Tabb and Ben Porterfield were two brilliant engineers who had figured out a better way for businesses to see and analyze their data, and they asked me to join them to help out with the ABCs - that's short for Anything But Coding.

Business analytics or predictive modelling is a $100 billion industry, and $41 billion is spent on outsourced business analytics every year. I think that's about twice the size of the movie industry - it's really big.

My mission is to bring the power of big data insights and analytics to every company.

There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.

In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.

It's a huge competitive advantage to see in real time what's happening with your data.

Even smaller companies are putting resources behind their analytics teams in the same way they put resources behind engineering and product teams. There are some great tools out there that allow even tiny businesses to use data effectively.