This document discusses different types of data analytics including web, mobile, retail, social media, and unstructured analytics. It defines business analytics as the integration of disparate internal and external data sources to answer forward-looking business questions tied to key objectives. Big data comes from various sources like web behavior and social media, while little data refers to any data not considered big data. Successful analytics requires addressing business challenges, having a strong data foundation, implementing solutions with goals in mind, generating insights, measuring results, sharing knowledge, and innovating approaches. The future of analytics involves every company having a data strategy and using tools to augment internal data. Predictive analytics tells what will happen, while prescriptive analytics tells how to make it