“Most companies think traditional Business Intelligence (BI) in which data is collected in warehouses, models are created based on business criteria and results are visualized through reports is sufficient. While this is true if your only concern is to answer basic questions like which customers are more profitable, it is not enough to deliver transformative business change like Data Science can. Data Science takes a different approach than BI in that insights and models are derived from the data through the application of statistical and mathematical techniques by Data Scientists. The data drives the modeling and insights. When you let the data guide you – you are less likely to try to use the data to support wrong predispositions or conclusions.” Kristen Paral ( August 23, 2014 )

“If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn’t be able to reach a conclusion.” Anon

“Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers.” Ross Perot

“In the near future, most companies will rely increasingly on AIsupported agents and bots to manage customer relationships, leading to a radical transformation of commerce.” Mike Barlow ( 2017 )

“There were 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.” Eric Schmidt ( 2010 )

“The misconception about big data is that the value lies in the collecting mass amounts of information and interpreting it. This really isn’t the case. The ultimate value derives from the specific actions’ businesses take after analyzing such data. And if” Ryan Gould ( 27.02.2019 10:31 )

“Without big data, you are blind and deaf in the middle of a freeway.” Geoffrey Moore

“[For] topic models and social network analysis tensor methods proved to be faster and more accurate than other methods.” Anima Anandkumar ( 02/18/2015 )

“Data mining is only tool; it does not eliminate the need to know the business, to understand the data, or to understand the analytical methods involved.” Joyce Jackson

“Unlike SAP HANA, Hadoop won’t help you understand your business at ‘the speed of thought.’ But it lets you store and access more voluminous, detailed data at lower cost so you can drill deeper and in different ways into your business data.” SAP ( 2013 )