How to Use Big Data Analytics to Steer Your Business in the Right Direction


Blog 10: How to Use Big Data Analytics to Steer Your Business in the Right Direction

Amy Le - 黎草嵋
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By analyzing very large data sets using sophisticated algorithms, it is possible to gain deep insights that are only possible thanks to the huge volume of data involved. For businesses, this presents a number of unique opportunities. Here are just some of the ways that big data analytics can benefit modern businesses.

Make More Informed Decisions

For any business, its customers and users are their most important assets. In order to lead a successful business, you need to have a strategy for attracting new customers to your business while also retaining the customers who are already using your business. Competition is stiff and if you don’t look after your customers, another business will come along and poach them.

Big data can offer businesses unprecedented insight into consumer psychology and the behavior of their customers. With this information in hand, businesses can make more informed decisions about their day to day operations so as to retain as many customers as possible and minimize their churn rate.

Big data also enables businesses to identify trends that they can use to acquire new customers. For example, someone planning to launch an e-commerce store today will need to decide on hosting, payment processors, web design platforms, and a range of other things they need to get their site off the ground. If there is clear data showing that e-commerce stores selling through quality platforms, for example, are doing better than those using other platforms, it makes sense to choose them over alternative options.

Make Smarter Marketing Decisions

Good marketing is about much more than just your budget. Any business can throw money at a marketing campaign, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it is going to achieve anything. After all, the audience that sees your marketing doesn’t know or care how much money has gone into it. Good marketing is about making smart decisions, something that is much easier to do when your decisions are based on hard data.

Of course, if your competitors have a significantly bigger marketing budget than you do, they have a clear advantage. However, this is not an insurmountable barrier. By utilizing big data analytics, you can devise a much more targeted marketing campaign that prioritizes getting your marketing in front of people who are likely to respond well to it, rather than as many people as possible.

Better Risk Management

We are currently living through an unprecedented economic shock. As a result, entrepreneurs are currently facing a level and a type of risk that is completely new to them. Managing risks is a core component of managing a business. There are few certainties in the world of business and most operational decisions that businesses make come with some level of risk attached.

However, by utilizing big data to make more informed decisions, you can drastically reduce the level of risk you are exposed to. Data analytics won’t eliminate risk from the equation altogether, but it will greatly reduce it.


Data is becoming ever more important to businesses, informing their decision making and enabling them to turbocharge their operations. With the power of big data analytics on your side, you can make better decisions and outmaneuver your rivals.


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