ATAL FDP PROGRAM on 'Emerging Trends in Business Analytics for Managers' began on Monday at Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS), Ranchi. The introduction to five-day programme was introduced by Dr Mahua Banerjee, Head of Programme, Information Technology Programme, XISS, where she introduced the subject and spoke about the relevance of Business Analytics in the present time.
Dr Jospeh Marianus Kujur SJ, Director, XISS, Ranchi, delivered the welcome speech and highlighted the importance of data handling. In his address he said, "Data is the heart of business analytics and in today’s time there is a wide scope for managers who can deal smartly with the analysis of data for business. This has introduced a paradigm shift as managers can now also work as financial analysts, market researchers, and in fields of data and machine learning.”
Dr. Aloknath De, SVP and CTO of Samsung R&D India, Bangalore in his keynote address spoke on the intersection of Business Information Intelligence, Business Statistical Intelligence and Business Modelling Intelligence. The key highlight of Dr De’s talk was application of artificial intelligence and machine learning in drawing results using a vast amount of data around us and how decision making in various industries are done.
In one of the business sessions, Dr Swagatham Das, Associate Professor, ISI Kolkata talked about the evolution of business analytics for data driven decision making and stressed upon the scope of business analytics in the current scenario when data is fluctuating every second.
Dr Pradip K. Bala, Professor, IIM Ranchi, talked about the relevance of data analytics for business in recent times. He primarily spoke on various techniques used in data analysis. The final session for the day was engaged by Dr Anamika Singh, Director, Singhad Institute of Management and Computer Application. She addressed the participants and spoke about traits of data analytics.