Business Intelligence Concepts and Tools: BI Platform Capabilities
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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 (correct)
  • It purchases digital versions of chapters for students
  • It provides user interface for data sources
  • It analyzes business intelligence platforms

    • 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 (correct)
  • Digital versions of an alternative textbook
  • Digital versions of all chapters of the authoritative textbook
  • Physical copies of the course textbook

    • What did Decision Path's Bill Collins analyze in his three-part series?

  • The styles of BI and their application to BI solutions (correct)
  • The trends in business intelligence
  • The role of BI platform in decision making
  • The styles of data warehouse

    • Where can students find a quick overview of business intelligence platforms?

    <p>At a separate link under course overview</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the regular price for students to purchase one digital chapter of the authoritative textbook?

    <p>$15</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the BI platform provide in one (or more) 'styles' of BI?

    <p>User interface for data sources</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of the BI platform?

    <p>To interpret and harmonize complex data across different databases</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the 7 Styles of BI mentioned in the text?

    <p>Reporting, Dashboards, OLAP Analysis, Advanced or Ad-hoc Analysis, and Pro-active Alerting</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does MicroStrategy present its solution as?

    <p>Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a significant technology in the descriptive analytic area mentioned in the text?

    <p>Data discovery and visualization</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main purpose of BI decision-support applications?

    <p>To deliver information in the right format to the right people</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why is it important to design BI solutions with the end-user’s needs in mind?

    <p>To provide information so the user can understand it, interact with it, and apply it to the business problem at hand</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the BI platform provide to business people?

    <p>User interface to interact with company’s data in any of 7 different ways</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Where does MicroStrategy's solution offer its services?

    <p>On premise or in the cloud</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one of the main capabilities of a BI system?

    <p>To analyze, monitor, and act on the information it presents</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the real value of a BI platform?

    <p>To allow companies to create and deploy many BI applications composed of reports, dashboards, and other analytic workflow</p> Signup and view all the answers

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