What is Real-Time Analytics?
Processing and analyzing data as it arrives to enable immediate insights and actions.
Real-time analytics refers to the capability to process and analyze data as it is created or received, enabling immediate insights and automated actions. Unlike batch analytics (which processes accumulated data periodically), real-time analytics operates on streaming data with latency measured in seconds or milliseconds. Common use cases include fraud detection, real-time personalization, operational monitoring, and IoT sensor analysis.
Related terms
Business Intelligence
Technologies and practices for transforming raw data into actionable business insights.
Data Pipeline
An automated workflow that extracts, transforms, and loads data from sources to destinations.
Predictive Analytics
Using statistical models and machine learning to forecast future outcomes from historical data.
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