16 Questions
What is the primary purpose of business intelligence infrastructure?
To collect and store data from the business environment
What does the term 'big data' refer to in the context of business intelligence?
Data that are unstructured and from many different sources
What does the business intelligence environment provide?
Current and predictive views of business operations
Which element is part of the business analytics toolset in the business intelligence environment?
User interface
What is the primary role of managerial users in the context of business intelligence?
To analyze and make decisions based on the data
Why is it important for businesses to integrate and organize structured and unstructured data?
To ensure the data can be analyzed and used by human decision makers
What percentage of their time do workers spend searching, finding, and assessing unstructured data?
30-40%
What type of data cannot be stored in predictably ordered columns and rows in the context of relational database systems?
Unstructured data
What percentage of all data exists as unstructured and semi-structured data?
Up to 85%
What is metadata?
Data about other data
What does the text propose to solve problems with the searchability and assessment of unstructured data?
Adding context through the use of metadata
What provides the underlying foundation of business intelligence?
Business intelligence infrastructure
What are examples of unstructured data mentioned in the text?
.docx and .pdf files
What might organizations fail to draw upon due to the difficulty of properly searching, finding, and assessing unstructured data?
Vast reservoirs of information
What type of data is typically stored in a binary large object (BLOB)?
.png and .jpeg files
What do managers do using a variety of managerial approaches in relation to business intelligence hardware and software?
Impose order on the analysis of data
Test your knowledge of business intelligence infrastructure, data warehousing, integration, reporting, and analysis. Explore the fundamentals of how businesses collect, store, clean, and utilize relevant information for managerial decision-making.
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