33:799:490 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Business Agility, Online Analytical Processing, Data Mining
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Bi front end: front end tools are needed for successful bi, needed: Ease of use: will help to increase user acceptance and use. Dashboards and scorecards: a visual display of the most important informaion needed to achieve one or more objecives, consolidate and arranged on a single screen so the informaion can monitored at a glance. Similar to the dashboard on a car: scorecards track a set of key performance indicators (kpis) compared to a forecast or a target. Online analyical processing (olap: focuses on analyzing and exploring data, whereas query and reporing tools put greater emphasis on accessing data for monitoring purposes, olap characterisics. Mulidimensional provides interacive analysis by diferent dimensions. Highly interacive drilling, pivoing and slicing data.