This document provides an assignment for a business intelligence and tools course. It includes 6 questions about topics like similarity measures, OLAP vs OLTP, data extraction techniques, business intelligence strategy and implementation, and using BI solutions. Students are asked to answer each question in 1-10 marks, providing lists, explanations, and short notes on the various business intelligence concepts and how a footwear company could implement and make best use of BI solutions.

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ASSIGNMENT
DRIVE SPRING DRIVE 2014
PROGRAM MBADS (SEM 3/SEM 5)
MBAFLEX/ MBAN2 (SEM 3)
PGDISMN (SEM 1)
SUBJECT CODE &
NAME
MI0036- BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE & TOOLS
BK ID B1219
CREDIT 4
MARKS 60
Note: Answer all questions. Kindly note that answers for 10 marks questions should be
approximately of 400 words. Each question is followed by evaluation scheme.
Q.No Questions Marks Total Marks
1 Similarity measures determine the similarity between the two objects. The similarity between
the two objects ti and tj, sim(ti, tj) in the database D is a mapping from D*D to the range [0, 1].
a. List the characteristics of a good similarity measure.
b. what are the four methods to determine the similarity characteristic between the two
objects?
A a. Listing the characteristics 3
10
b. Listing the four methods 1
a. Four methods to determine the similarity
characteristic and their formula
6
2 Transactions refers to business or commercial transactions. Online transaction processing
refers to the category of systems that assists and manage transaction- oriented applications,
typically for data entry and retrieval transaction processing.
List the differences between OLAP and OLTP
A Listing at least 10 points 10 10
3 Data extraction is the act or the process of extracting data out of data sources for added data
processing or data storage or data migration. This data can be extracted from the web. Explain
the different techniques for data extraction
A Listing the various techniques 2 10
Explaining the four methods 8
4 Business Intelligence strategy summarizes the finest combination of procedures and
technologies to meet the business intelligence strategies of an organization.

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a. List the main aspects of BI strategy.
b. What are the steps to be followed to implement BI framework?
A a. Listing at least 6 main aspects of BI
strategy
3
10
b. Steps for Implementing BI framework 7
5 Write short note on
a. Content Management System
b. End User Segmentation
c. Basic Reporting and querying
d. OLAP
A a. Content Management System 2
10
b. End User Segmentation 3
c. Basic Reporting and querying 2
d. OLAP 3
6 RSG is a footwear company which has its chain all over the world. This company has to keep
track of all the products sold in the company and huge data is involved in it.
a. How should it plan to implement the Business intelligence solutions?
b. How to make the best use of BI?
A a. Explaining the planning to implement a BI
solutions
5
10
b. Explaining best usage of BI 5
*A-Answer