The Amsterdam Center for Business Analytics (ACBA) aims at developing, disseminating and exploiting business analytics/big data knowledge and applications by bringing together businesses and scientific research (academia). ACBA is part of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Central to all activities of ACBA is the development and application of highly qualified scientific research. The founding departments (the department of Mathematics and the department of Computer Science of the Faculty of Sciences and the department Information, Logistics and Innovation of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration) have a rich history in scientific research on analytics, as well as in collaboration with businesses on analytics. As such ACBA has professionals that are able to combine scientific research with understanding of business problems.