Review Application Case 4.2: DELL Is Staying Agile and Effective with Analytics in the 21st Century, and answer the following questions.
What were the challenges Dell was facing that led to their analytics journey?
What solutions did Dell develop and implement? What are your evaluations of the results?
As an analytics company itself, Dell has used its service offerings for its own business. Do you think it is easier or harder for a company to taste its own medicine? Explain.
Identify some specific applications of data mining and common characteristics of these applications associated with this case study.
Discuss some major data mining methods and algorithms that you would have utilized to solve these challenges.
