BUS-K 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Data Warehouse, Data Mart, Business Intelligence
Document Summary
Business intelligence systems - information systems that process operational, social, and other data to identify patterns, relationships, and trends for use by business professionals and other knowledge workers. Business intelligence - these patterns, relationships, trends, and predictions are referred to as Bi applications - the software component of a bi system. Decision support systems - an older term for decision-making bi systems. Data acquisition - the process of obtaining, cleaning, organizing, relating, and cataloguing source data. Bi analysis - the process of creating business intelligence. Publish results - the process of delivering business intelligence to the knowledge workers who need it. Push publishing - delivers business intelligence to users without any request from the users. Pull publishing - requires the users to request bi results. Data warehouse - a facility for managing an organization"s bi data. Granularity - a term that refers to the level of detail represented by the data.
