Business Driven Technology
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ISBN: 9781259567322
Author: Paige Baltzan Instructor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter B, Problem B10.1MBD
Program Plan Intro
Business Intelligence (BI):
- Business intelligence denotes technologies used by companies for analysis of data in business information.
- It provides current, historical and predictive views for business operations.
- The functions of BI includes:
- Reporting
- Data mining
- Process mining
- Benchmarking
- Text mining.
- It can handle huge amount of structured and unstructured data for identifying, developing and producing new prospects in business.
- The operating decisions include pricing or product positioning.
- The BI applications use data that is gathered from data warehouse.
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