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Business Intelligence Definition and Capabilities

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Business Intelligence

Definition and Capabilities

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JAIRO A. TABORDA

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Information Technology Department
Municipality of Envigado

Important Note:
These are original texts and were written and revised on 10 February 2012 by Gartner Inc. The original document is part of Gartner 's Magic Quadrant research methodology to provide a graphical and analytical competitive positioning of Business Intelligence technology providers.
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Business Intelligence 1 Market Definition/Description 3 1. Integration 3 1.1 BI infrastructure 3 1.2 Metadata management 3 1.3 Development tools 3 1.4 Collaboration 4 2. Information Delivery 4 2.1 Reporting 4 2.2 Dashboards 4 2.3 Ad hoc query 4 2.4 …show more content…

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2.2 Dashboards * This subset of reporting includes the ability to publish formal, Web-based or mobile reports with intuitive interactive displays of information, including dials, gauges, sliders, check boxes and traffic lights. These displays indicate the state of the performance metric compared with a goal or target value. Increasingly, dashboards are used to disseminate real-time data from operational applications or in conjunction with a complex event processing engine. *
2.3 Ad hoc query * This capability enables users to ask their own questions of the data, without relying on IT to create a report. In particular, the tools must have a robust semantic layer to allow users to navigate available data sources. These tools should include a disconnected analysis capability that enables users to access BI content and analyze data remotely without being connected to a server-based BI application. In addition, these tools should offer query governance and auditing capabilities to ensure that queries perform well. *

2.4 Microsoft Office integration * In some use cases, BI platforms are used as a middle tier to manage, secure and execute BI tasks, but Microsoft Office (particularly Excel) acts as the BI client. In these cases, it is vital that the BI vendor provides integration with

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