MIS Chapter 9

________ is defined as information containing patterns, relationships, and trends of various forms of data.

-business intelligence

________ requires the user to request BI results.

-pull publishing

Which of the following is a fundamental category of BI analysis?

Data mining

Data acquisition is the process of creating business intelligence.

False

Which of the following is true of source data for a BI system?

It refers to data that the organization purchases from data vendors.

Push publishing delivers business intelligence ________.

according to a schedule or as a result of an event or particular data condition

Data ________ is the process of obtaining, cleaning, organizing, relating, and cataloging source data.

acquisition

Business intelligence (BI) systems have only four of the five components of an information system: hardware, software, data, and people.

false

Push publishing requires the user to request BI results.

false

Report servers are specialized Web servers.

true

The software component of a BI system is called a BI application.

true

The three fundamental categories of BI analysis are reporting, data mining, Big data and knowledge management.

true

The three primary activities in the BI process are to acquire data, perform analysis, and publish results.

true