The Harvard Enterprise Analytics Program is obtainable via a collaboration between Harvard Business College (HBS), the John A. Paulson Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Nevertheless, some authors view analytics as a subset of enterprise intelligence (BI): a set of technologies and processes that use information to grasp and analyze business efficiency ” and includes both knowledge entry and reporting, and analytics” (Davenport and Harris, Competing on Analytics, 2007).

In the next wave, we are seeing a tighter alignment or foundational underpinning between analytics (even machine learning) and conventional enterprise applications...