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What is the role of the BI platform in the context of business intelligence?
It sits between data sources and end-users
What can students purchase at a very low cost as supplemental materials for the course?
Digital versions of chapters 1, 2, and 4 of the textbook Business Intelligence and Analytics: Systems for Decision Support
What did Decision Path's Bill Collins analyze in his three-part series?
The styles of BI and their application to BI solutions
Where can students find a quick overview of business intelligence platforms?
At a separate link under course overview
What is the regular price for students to purchase one digital chapter of the authoritative textbook?
$15
What does the BI platform provide in one (or more) 'styles' of BI?
User interface for data sources
What is the role of the BI platform?
To interpret and harmonize complex data across different databases
What are the 7 Styles of BI mentioned in the text?
Reporting, Dashboards, OLAP Analysis, Advanced or Ad-hoc Analysis, and Pro-active Alerting
What does MicroStrategy present its solution as?
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
What is a significant technology in the descriptive analytic area mentioned in the text?
Data discovery and visualization
What is the main purpose of BI decision-support applications?
To deliver information in the right format to the right people
Why is it important to design BI solutions with the end-user’s needs in mind?
To provide information so the user can understand it, interact with it, and apply it to the business problem at hand
What does the BI platform provide to business people?
User interface to interact with company’s data in any of 7 different ways
Where does MicroStrategy's solution offer its services?
On premise or in the cloud
What is one of the main capabilities of a BI system?
To analyze, monitor, and act on the information it presents
What is the real value of a BI platform?
To allow companies to create and deploy many BI applications composed of reports, dashboards, and other analytic workflow
Explore the bonus materials for Module 2 Lesson 2 of the course 'Business Intelligence Concepts, Tools, and Applications' focusing on BI platform capabilities. Don't forget to refer to the digital versions of chapters 1, 2, and 4 of the textbook 'Business Intelligence and Analytics: Systems for Decision Support, 10th edition, 2015 by Sharda, R., Delen, D' for supplemental materials.
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