9 - Business Intelligence Systems Flashcards
BI analysis
The process of creating business intelligence. The four fundamental categories of BI analysis are:
- Reporting
- Data Mining
- BigData
- Knowledge Management
BI application
The software component of a BI system
BigData
A term used to describe data collections that are characterized by huge volume, rapid velocity, and great variety.
BI server
A web server application that is purpose-built for the publishing of business intelligence.
Business Intelligence (BI)
The process of using operational and other data to create information that exposes patterns, relationships, and trends of importance to the org.
Business Intelligence (BI) systems
Information systems that process operational and other source data to identify patterns, relationships, and trends and make predictions.
Cluster Analysis
An unsupervised data mining technique whereby statistical techniques are used to identify groups of entities that have similar characteristics.
A common use for cluster analysis is to find groups of similar customers in data about customer orders and customer demographics.
Cookie
A small file that is stored on the user’s computer by a browser.
Cookies can be used for authentication, for storing shopping cart contents and user prefs, and other legitimate purposes.
Cookies can also be used to implement spyware.
Data Acquisition
In BI systems, the process of obtaining, cleaning, organizing, relating, and cataloging source data.
Data Aggregator
same as Data Broker:
A company that acquires and purchases consumer and other data from public records, retailers, internet cookie vendors, social media trackers, and other soruces and uses it to create BI that it sells to companies and the gov’t.
Data Broker
A company that acquires and purchases consumer and other data from public records, retailers, internet cookie vendors, social media trackers, and other soruces and uses it to create BI that it sells to companies and the gov’t.
Data mart
A data collection, smaller than a data warehouse, that addresses the needs of a particular department ofr functional area of business.
Data mining
The application of statistical techniques to find patterns and relationships among data for classification and prediction.
Data Warehouse
A facility for managing an organization’s BI data
Decision support system
Some authors define BI systems as supporting decision making ONLY, in which case they use this older term as a synonym for decision-making BI systems.
Dynamic Reports
Reports that are pulling data “in Real Time”
Exception Reports
Reports produced when something out of pre-defined bounds occurs.
Granularity
Level of detail in data.
Customer name and account balance is “large granularity” data.
Customer name, balance, and the order details and payment history of every customer order is smaller granularity.
Hadoop
An open-source program supported by the Apache Foundation that manages thousands of computers and which implements MapReduce.
MapReduce
A two-phase technique for harnessing the power of thousands of computers working in parallel.
During the first phase, the Map phase, computers work on a task in parallel; during the second phase, the Reduce phase, the work of separate computers is combined, eventually obtaining a single result.
Pig
Query language used with Hadoop
Predictive Policing
Using data on past crimes to predict where future crimes are likely to occur.
Publish results
The process of delivering business intelligence to the knowledge workers who need it.
Pull publishing
In BI systems, the mode whereby users must request BI results.
Push publishing
In business intelligence (BI) systems, the mode whereby the BI system delivers business intelligence to users without any requests from the users, according to a schedule, or as a result of an event or particular data condition
Regression analysis
A type of supervised data mining that estimates the values of parameters in a linear equation.
Used to determine the relative influence of variables on an outcome and also to predict future values of an outcome.
Reporting Analysis
The process of sorting, grouping, summing, filtering and formatting structured data.
Reporting Analysis
The process of sorting, grouping, summing, filtering, and formatting structured data
Semantic Security
Concerns the unintended release of protected data through the release of a combination of reports or documents that are not protected independently.
Static Reports
Business intelligence documents that are fixed at the time of creation and do not change
Structured Data
Data in the form of rows and columns
Subscriptions
User requests for particular business intelligence results on a stated schedule or in response to particular events
Supervised data mining
A form of data mining in which data miners develop a model prior to the analysis and apply statistical techniques to data to estimate values of the parameters of the model.
The Singularity
The point at which computer systems become sophisticated enough that they can create and adapt their own software and hence adapt their behavior without human assistance
Third-party Cookie
A cookie created by a site other than the one visited.
Unsupervised Data mining
A form of data mining whereby the analysts do not create a model or hypothesis before running the analysis.
Instead, they apply the data mining technique to the data and observe the results. With this method, analysts create hypotheses after the analysis to explain the patterns found.
