{"id":5488,"date":"2015-06-04T10:21:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T10:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=5488"},"modified":"2015-06-03T13:45:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T13:45:19","slug":"how-to-become-a-data-driven-company-overnight-0604152","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/how-to-become-a-data-driven-company-overnight-0604152\/5488\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Become a Data-Driven Company Overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"Strahan Wilson, CFO at sandwich chain EAT, explains how predictive analytics has helped him keep the shelves stocked, the customers happy and the shops fully staffed during peak periods. Historically, predictive analysis has been the preserve of the major supermarkets.\u00a0The huge investment in on-premise software systems and the need to employ specialist statisticians to evolve the models in response to business changes has kept it out of reach of smaller retailers. Thankfully, innovative, cloud-based platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions are providing simple yet equally powerful ways of performing predictive analytics at an affordable price \u2013 without the need for in-house <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/how-to-become-a-data-driven-company-overnight-0604152\/5488\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strahan Wilson, CFO at sandwich chain EAT, explains how predictive analytics has helped him keep the shelves stocked, the customers happy and the shops fully staffed during peak periods. Historically, predictive analysis has been the preserve of the major supermarkets.\u00a0The huge investment in on-premise software systems and the need to employ specialist statisticians to evolve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[42,8],"class_list":["post-5488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-big-data","tag-predictive-analytics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5491,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488\/revisions\/5491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}