If I were into scrying (the art of predicting the future by gazing into a crystal ball), I would prophesy that EDUCAUSE Review readers will have two equal and opposite reactions on seeing an issue devoted to predictive analytics. The first reaction might be: "Are we still talking about how to use predictive analytics?" And the second reaction might be: "I wonder what predictive analytics we are using on our campus." We are all accustomed to tracking technologies that are emerging or that may seem to be more hype than substance, but what do we make of technologies like analytics? Here is a combination of tools and practices whose fundamental value is rarely questioned but that have not achieved the traction we might have expected by now. This issue of EDUCAUSE Review is a timely consideration of the state of predictive (and other) analytics across higher education: How are these tools and practices being used, how can they be better used, and how can institutions understand their own progress? How are the tools and practices of predictive analytics being used, how can they be better used, and how can institutions understand their own progress with analytics?