BI Trends to Watch in 2005

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BI Trends to Watch in 2005
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What is BI?

• BI stands for Business Intelligence
• Originally pie charts pivot tables
• Becoming increasingly advanced as firm employees
  demand more options

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Forms of BI

• Dashboards
• Data integration
• OLAP
• Data mining

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What Are Dashboards?

• In essence, dashboards are graphical exception
  reports. Wayne Eckerson
• A group of graphs of all sorts that
  simultaneously change together as the data is
  changed in the program

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Dashboards examples
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Data Integration

• The process of blending data items from various
  distinct sources to create a larger and more
  comprehensive body of knowledge.

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OLAP

• On-Line Analytical Processing
• A BI program that enable users to analyze
  different dimensions of multidimensional data.
• For example, it provides time series and trend
  analysis views.

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OLAP transforms data like this
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into this!
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Data Mining

• The automated extraction of hidden predictive
  information from databases.

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BI in 2004

• Dashboards, dashboards, dashboards
• BI sent overseas
• No more ad hoc

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BI in 2005

• Some BI coming back to U.S.
• Firms consolidate number of different BI software
• Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) global
  positioning

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References

• BI Trends to Watch in 2005
• by Stephen Swoyer
• Top Five BI Trends
• by Ted Kemp
• More Than Pie Charts
• by Michael Gonzales

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• MIS 202
• Allison Croyle
• ac231702