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How to win with prescriptive analytics

Analytics has evolved from the basics--visualizations, historicals and dashboards--to the more complex with recommendations and predictions of outcomes. Now it's time to step it up and get prescriptive. How do you set up an analytics infrastructure that sees around corners and gives you options to avoid a head-on crash?