Introduction to Business Intelligence

1. Introduction to Business
Intelligence
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2. • What is Business Intelligence (BI)?
• BI Vision?
• BI Environment?
• BI Tools
Discussion

3. What is Business Intelligence (BI)?

4. What is Business Intelligence (BI)?
“The processes, technologies and tools needed to turn data into
information and information into knowledge and knowledge into plans
that drive profitable business action. BI encompasses data
warehousing, business analytics and knowledge management.”
The Data Warehouse Institute

5. BI Vision: Revitalizing Value Growth

6. BI Vision: BI can be thought of as a data refinery that
turns data into actions and business value.

7. BI Process

8. BI Environment: A typical enterprise BI environment
consists of a warehouse and an analytical environment.

9. BI Environment: Building and managing a data
warehouse

10. BI Environment: The landscape for analytical tools

11. BI Environment: The adoption of analytical tools typically also
follows an evolution process of increasing complexity

12. Different user types exist, that require different
analytical tools and access.

13. BI Tools:

14. BI Tools: BI tool selection criteria
Must-haves
• Data sources
• Cross Database Joins, Data Blending
• Data filters and drilldown
• User interface: web/app
• Create measures
• Create hierarchies
• Visualizations
• Create and publish by business users
• Business intelligence platform
administration
• Ease of analytical use
• Print and export
• Notification
• Security
Nice-to-haves
• Advanced visualizations
• Storyboarding
• Mobile version
• In-memory analytics
• Offline updates
• Performance monitoring
• Ease of setup BI applications
• Speed of access
• Pricing

15. Q&A