Friday, July 22, 2011

Business Intelligence

Currently, the academic definition of business intelligence is not uniform. Business intelligence is usually understood as the enterprise in the existing data into knowledge to help companies make informed business decision-making tool. Here are talking about data from the enterprise business systems, including orders, inventory, transaction accounts, customers and suppliers and other industry and competitors from companies in which the data and the other from the external environment in which enterprises in a variety of data . And business intelligence to assist the business decision-making, both the operating level, it can be tactical and business intelligence Strategic level decisions. In order to turn data into knowledge, needs to use data warehousing, online analytical processing (OLAP) tools and data mining techniques. Therefore, from a technical perspective, business intelligence is not new technology, it's just data warehousing, OLAP and data mining technologies such as integrated application.
 
That, business intelligence is a business information collection, management and analysis process is intended to enable business decision makers at all levels of access to knowledge or insight (insight), prompting them to make the business more profitable decisions. General by the data warehouse business intelligence, online analytical processing, data mining, data backup and recovery components. Related to the implementation of business intelligence software, hardware, consulting services and applications, the basic architecture, including data warehousing, online analytical processing and data mining in three parts.
 
Hence, as a business intelligence solution should be more appropriate. Business Intelligence is the key to the company from many different operating systems from the data to extract useful data and clean up, to ensure data accuracy, and then after extraction (Extraction), conversion (Transformation) and load (Load), the ETL process, into an enterprise-class data warehouse, enterprise data to obtain a global view, on this basis, using the appropriate query and analysis tools, data mining tools, OLAP tools such as its analysis and processing (which support decision-making when information becomes knowledge), and finally the knowledge presented to managers, decision-making process for managers to provide support. Providing business intelligence solutions, including well-known IT vendors Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Informatica, Microstrategy, Business Objects, Cognos, SAS and so on.

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