Analytics has been a well-known strategy to identify opportunities, streamline work, and take decisions. Almost all businesses in some form or other make use of analytics. The scheduled annual appraisals in a company is a simple example of analytics usage. While usage of analytics is not new, big data is. Identified with volume, velocity, and variety, big data has opened a room full of opportunities for enterprises. Companies have for long maintained a data pool, and data analytics help you make use of that pile of data which had just been lying around. The focus of this blog is on how data analytics can help your business and why is it important to incorporate data analytics to have a successful business.