Chapter 7: Business Intelligence

Question 1

a term that describes a comprehensive, cohesive, and integrated set of tools and process used to capture, collect, integrate, store, and analyze data with the purpose of generating and presenting information to support business decision making

Answer 1

Business Intelligence (BI)

Question 2

collect, filter, integrate, and aggregate internal and external data to be saved into a data store optimized for decision support

Answer 2

extraction, transformation, and loading

Question 3

optimized for decision support and is generally represented by a data warehouse or a data mart

Answer 3

data store

Question 4

this component performs data selection and retrieval, and is used by the data analyst to create queries that access the databases and create the required report

Answer 4

query and reporting

Question 5

allows real-time monitoring of business activities

Answer 5

data monitoring and alerting

Question 6

performs data analysis and data mining task using the data in the dat store

Answer 6

data analytics

Question 7

uses web-base technologies to present key business performance indicators or information in a single integrated view

Answer 7

dashboards

Question 8

provide a unified, single point of entry for information distribution

Answer 8

portals