BTE 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Decision-Making, Data Mart, Geocoding
2 Mar 2017
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Business intelligence: broad category of applications, technologies and processes for gathering, storing, accessing, and analyzing data to help business users make better decisions: provides current, timely and accurate info. Management: process by which an organization achieves its goals through the use of resources (inputs); achievement of goal (output: managers success or productivity is a measure of ratio between inputs and outputs. All managers perform: interpersonal roles, informational roles, decisional roles. Decision making consists of intelligence, design, and choice: intelligence: managers examine situation and identify problem/opportunity, design: construct model to address situation, choice: select solution that seems best suited to resolve problem implement it. Major bi software vendors: sas, hyperion, business objects, information builders, Bi includes getting data in to mart or warehouse and getting it out through bi apps. Development of 1 or a few related bi applications: usually occur at departmental level; create data mart to store this data.
