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    Business intelligence (BI) tools allow users to analyze operational data to support decision making. Data is extracted from sources like databases and data warehouses, then transformed and loaded into dimensional data models like star schemas for analysis. BI tools include online analytical processing (OLAP) for interactive exploration of data through slicing and dicing, and pivot tables for flexible reporting. Implementing BI provides strategic benefits like optimizing performance, tactical benefits like assessing value chains, and functional benefits like delivering critical business information to users.

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    Business intelligence (BI) tools allow users to analyze operational data to support decision making. Data is extracted from sources like databases and data warehouses, then transformed and loaded into dimensional data models like star schemas for analysis. BI tools include online analytical processing (OLAP) for interactive exploration of data through slicing and dicing, and pivot tables for flexible reporting. Implementing BI provides strategic benefits like optimizing performance, tactical benefits like assessing value chains, and functional benefits like delivering critical business information to users.

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    Business intelligence (BI) tools allow users to analyze operational data to support decision making. Data is extracted from sources like databases and data warehouses, then transformed and loaded into dimensional data models like star schemas for analysis. BI tools include online analytical processing (OLAP) for interactive exploration of data through slicing and dicing, and pivot tables for flexible reporting. Implementing BI provides strategic benefits like optimizing performance, tactical benefits like assessing value chains, and functional benefits like delivering critical business information to users.

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    Business Intelligence: Source: Cherry Tree & Co

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    Business intelligence (BI) tools allow users to analyze operational data to support decision making. Data is extracted from sources like databases and data warehouses, then transformed and loaded into dimensional data models like star schemas for analysis. BI tools include online analytical processing (OLAP) for interactive exploration of data through slicing and dicing, and pivot tables for flexible reporting. Implementing BI provides strategic benefits like optimizing performance, tactical benefits like assessing value chains, and functional benefits like delivering critical business information to users.

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    Business Intelligence Overview

    Source: Cherry Tree & Co.

    What is Business Intelligence?

    Business Intelligence (BI) applications are decision support tools that enable real-time, interactive access, analysis and manipulation of mission-critical corporate information. The goals for Business intelligence projects are to provide information used to:

    Support internal enterprise users in the assessment, enhancement and optimization of organizational performance & operation. Deliver critical business information to end-users about value chain constituencies such as customers and supply-chain partners.

    End-users can utilize the BI tools to "drill-down" and "slice and dice" to gain a better understanding of transactional and operational information; for example, Star Schema and OLAP are usually used for provide this functionality.

    Business Intelligence
    Customer

    Inventory

    Marketing Data Mart

    OLAP

    Credit

    ETL tools
    Sales

    Data Warehouse

    Finance Data Mart

    BI

    Operation

    Distribution Data Mart

    Reports

    External

    Pivot Table

    Business Intelligence Tools Introduction

    Operational Data Source: Business Intelligence system collects data from various sources including operation database, OLTP, ERP, legacy apps, external database and etc. ETL tools (Extract, Transform, Load) are used to pull data from source database, transform the data so that it is compatible with the data warehouse and then load it into data warehouse. A Data Warehouse is a "Subject-Oriented, Integrated, TimeVariant, Nonvolatile collection of data in support of decision making". Data Warehouses tend to have these distinguishing features: (1) Use a subject oriented dimensional data model; (2) Contain publishable data from potentially multiple sources and; (3) Contain integrated reporting tools.

    Data Warehouse usually adopts Star Schema data structure for optimizing the performance of data analysis and reporting.

    Star Schema

    A Star schema is optimized for data analysis as is typically required in a Decision Support System. A star schema has a fact table surrounded by dimension tables

    Data Mart

    A data mart is a repository of data gathered from operational data and other sources that is designed to serve a particular community of knowledge workers. The data may derive from an enterprise-wide database or data warehouse or be more specialized.

    The emphasis of a data mart is on meeting the specific demands of a particular group of knowledge users in terms of analysis, content, presentation, and ease-of-use. Users of a data mart can expect to have data presented in terms that are familiar.

    On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP)

    Literally, On-Line Analytical Processing. Designates a category of applications and technologies that allow the collection, storage, manipulation and reproduction of multidimensional data, with the goal of analysis. Example: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/bernard.lupin/english

    Pivot Table

    A pivot table is a great reporting tool that allows for slicing and dicing data.

    Analytical Software Market


    Analytical Software Revenue
    $6.00 $5.20 $5.00 $4.10 $4.00

    (In Billions)

    $3.20 $3.00 $2.00 $1.00 $0.00 $1.90 $1.50 $2.50

    1998

    1999

    2000 Year

    2001

    2002 Revenue

    2003

    OLAP Market

    Strategic, Tactical & Functional Benefits of Business Intelligence

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