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| business intelligence (BI) |
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| A broad category of applications, technologies, and processes for gathering, storing, accessing, and analyzing data to help business users make better decisions |
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| corporate performance management (CPM) |
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| The area of business intelligence involved with monitoring and managing an organization's performance, according to key performance indicators (KPIs) such as revenue, return on investment (ROI), overhead, and operational costs |
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| A BI application that provides rapid access to timely information and direct access to management reports |
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| The process of searching for valuable business information in a large database, data warehouse, or data mart |
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| A choice that individuals and groups make among two or more alternatives |
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| decision support systems (DSSs) |
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| Business intelligence systems that combine models and data in an attempt to solve semistructured and some unstructured problems with extensive user involvement |
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| geographic information system (GIS) |
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| A computer-based system for capturing, integrating, manipulating, and displaying data using digitized maps |
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| A process by which organizational goals are achieved through the use of resources |
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| A simplified representation, or abstraction, of reality (in decision making) |
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| online analytical processing (OLAP) |
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| A set of capabilities for “slicing and dicing” data using dimensions and measures associated with the data |
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| The ratio between the inputs to a process and the outputs from that process |
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| Allows analysts to extract information from the usage patterns of mobile phones and other wireless devices |
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