Compléter DIBM_U8_W20_Activity 2Version en ligne Fill in the blanks par Dayan Rajapakse 1 business intelligence processing analyzing examining conclude informed decisions analytical Data analytics is the process of data sets to the information they contain , increasingly with the aid of specialized systems and software . Data analytics technologies and techniques are widely used in commercial industries to enable organizations to make more - business . As a term , data analytics predominantly refers to an assortment of applications , from basic ( BI ) , reporting and online ( OLAP ) to various forms of advanced analytics . In that sense , it's similar to business analytics , another umbrella term for approaches to data - - with the difference that the latter is oriented to business uses , while data analytics has a broader focus .