THIS IS HOW BIG DATA ANALYTICS HELPED GERMANY TO WIN WORLD CUP 2014
Once traditional data warehouse solutions as Business Intelligence (BI) and data mining start fall short when dealing with big types of data, big data analytics took over to complete this mission bringing new tools to enable process automation and decision making.
This science which has already transformed a lot of other industries, is used nowdays to let us understand deeply football games data which can help us to predict their results. Companies like STATS or Opta Sports are collecting data and trying to make sense of it for sports teams and federations. If you are looking for an example of big data analytics uses, we can talk about Germany's national football team, 2014 world cup winner, and how the German Football Association built up a tool for competitive advantage.
Some of the details have been disclosed by coaches and SAP execs in interviews but the type of data and the extent to which is is being used remain a closely guarded secret.