the essentials of business intelligence
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The Essen(als of Business Intelligence
Process of intelligence crea(on & BI Intelligence crea,on includes: • Iden,fying And priori,zing specific BI projects • Measures to es,mate cost benefit ra,o
• Cost of maintaining the applica,on
• Benefit es,ma,on
Intelligence crea,on started with
• Data collec,on Analysis of raw data to produce usable Appropriate dissemina,on
Right user
Characteris(cs of Business Intelligence • Simple point to access to informa,on. • Timely answer to business ques,ons.
• Using BI in all departments of an organiza,on.
• Maintain Quality and Consistency
• Manage Interdependencies
• Align With Strategy
BI Implementa(on • Precondi,on: Framework for planning • Define strategic & opera,onal objec,ves. • Have a in place plan to prepare the organiza,on for change.
• Assessments before any significant investment.
• From assessments: a detailed ac,on plan
• Report of BI implementa,on & it’s rela,on with other systems like ERP and CRM.
Structure And Components of BI • The Data Warehouse: A special database to support decision making.
• Business Analy(cs: To create on-‐demand reports and queries and to conduct analysis of data.
• Data Mining: Data informa,on analysis looks for hidden paRerns in a group of data.
• Business Performance Management: A framework for defining, implemen,ng, and managing an enterprise’s business strategy.
Data Warehouse
• Subject oriented • Scrubbed so that data from heterogeneous sources are
standardized • Time series; no current status • Nonvola,le
– Read only • Summarized • Not normalized; may be redundant • Data from both internal and external sources is present • Metadata included
– Data about data • Business metadata • Seman,c metadata
Business Analy,cs
• Ac,vi,es performed by end users in online systems – Specific, open-‐ended query genera,on • SQL
– Ad hoc reports – Sta,s,cal analysis – Building DSS applica,ons
• Modeling and visualiza,on capabili,es • Special class of tools – DSS/BI/BA front ends – Data access front ends – Database front ends – Visual informa,on access systems
Data Mining
• Organizes and employs informa,on and knowledge from databases
• Sta,s,cal, mathema,cal, ar,ficial intelligence, and machine-‐learning techniques
• Automa,c and fast • Tools look for paRerns
– Simple models – Intermediate models – Complex Models
Summary • Quality and ,meliness of business informa,on is extremely important.
• Industry analyst report: coming year, millions of people will use BI visual tool.
• BI spreading it’s wing to cover small, medium and large companies.
• Analy,cal tools penetra,ng the market for very specialized func,ons.