Shares the functionalities of i) building analysis models and simulations to create scenarios, ii) understand realities and/or iii) predict future states. Business analytics includes data mining, predictive analytics, applied analytics and statistics, and is delivered as an application suitable for a business user. These analytics solutions often come with prebuilt industry content that is targeted at an industry business process (for example, claims, underwriting or a specific regulatory requirement). Based on Gartner http://www.gartner.com/it-glossary/business-analytics/ The following implementation is an example on how this specific Architecture Building Block (ABB) can be instantiated as a Solution Building Block (SBB): KNIME® KNIME® Analytics Platform is the leading open solution for data-driven innovation, helping discovering the potential hidden in data, mine for fresh insights, or predict new futures. This enterprise-grade, open source platform is scalable. KNIME Analytics Platform provides to data scientists more than 1000 modules, hundreds of ready-to-run examples, a comprehensive range of integrated tools, and a wide choice of advanced algorithms. • Data Blending: simple text files, databases, documents, images, networks, and even Hadoop-based data can all be combined within the same visual workflow. • Tool Blending: integration of more than a dozen tools, including legacy scripting/code, allows expertise to be reused, graphically documented, and shared among data scientists. • Visual: easy-to-learn graphical interface means that coding is optional and work is visually documented. https://www.knime.com/knime-server