When talking about F# from a business perspective in chapter 1, we mostly focused on the development of analytical components. These are the components that underlie the business value of an application. Think about financial models, artificial intelligence in games, recommendation engines in retail applications, and data analysis and visualization components.
As you saw in chapter 1, choosing F# for developing analytical components will solve existing problems for your business, including taming complexity, guaranteeing correctness and performance of solutions, and making it easier and faster to turn an application from an idea and a prototype into a deployed system.