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What is the primary purpose of business intelligence infrastructure?
What is the primary purpose of business intelligence infrastructure?
- To predict future business operations
- To design business analytics toolset
- To create structured data formats
- To collect and store data from the business environment (correct)
What does the term 'big data' refer to in the context of business intelligence?
What does the term 'big data' refer to in the context of business intelligence?
- Data that are difficult to analyze and use
- Data that are stored in predefined formats
- Data that are easy to integrate and organize
- Data that are unstructured and from many different sources (correct)
What does the business intelligence environment provide?
What does the business intelligence environment provide?
- Only historical views of business operations
- Only current views of business operations
- Current and predictive views of business operations (correct)
- Only predictive views of business operations
Which element is part of the business analytics toolset in the business intelligence environment?
Which element is part of the business analytics toolset in the business intelligence environment?
What is the primary role of managerial users in the context of business intelligence?
What is the primary role of managerial users in the context of business intelligence?
Why is it important for businesses to integrate and organize structured and unstructured data?
Why is it important for businesses to integrate and organize structured and unstructured data?
What percentage of their time do workers spend searching, finding, and assessing unstructured data?
What percentage of their time do workers spend searching, finding, and assessing unstructured data?
What type of data cannot be stored in predictably ordered columns and rows in the context of relational database systems?
What type of data cannot be stored in predictably ordered columns and rows in the context of relational database systems?
What percentage of all data exists as unstructured and semi-structured data?
What percentage of all data exists as unstructured and semi-structured data?
What is metadata?
What is metadata?
What does the text propose to solve problems with the searchability and assessment of unstructured data?
What does the text propose to solve problems with the searchability and assessment of unstructured data?
What provides the underlying foundation of business intelligence?
What provides the underlying foundation of business intelligence?
What are examples of unstructured data mentioned in the text?
What are examples of unstructured data mentioned in the text?
What might organizations fail to draw upon due to the difficulty of properly searching, finding, and assessing unstructured data?
What might organizations fail to draw upon due to the difficulty of properly searching, finding, and assessing unstructured data?
What type of data is typically stored in a binary large object (BLOB)?
What type of data is typically stored in a binary large object (BLOB)?
What do managers do using a variety of managerial approaches in relation to business intelligence hardware and software?
What do managers do using a variety of managerial approaches in relation to business intelligence hardware and software?
