BIS Chapter 9

Reporting Analysis

A business intelligence application that formats data by applying reporting tools to the data. It is the process of sorting, grouping, summing, filtering, and formatting structured data.

BI Server

A computer program that delivers BI application results in a variety of formats to various devices for consumption by BI users.

Third-Party Cookie

A cookie created by a site other than the one you visited.

Data Mart

A facility that prepares, stores, and manages data for reporting and data mining for specific business functions.

Data Warehouse

A facility that prepares, stores, and manages data specifically for reporting and data mining.

Supervised Data Mining

A form of data mining in which data miners develop a model prior to the analysis and apply statistical techniques to data to estimate values of the parameters of the model.

Unsupervised Data Mining

A form of data mining whereby the analysts do not create a model or hypothesis before running the analysis. Instead, they apply the data mining technique to the data and observe the results. With this method, analysts create hypotheses after the analysis to explain the patterns found.

The Singularity

A point in time in which computer systems become able to design and code themselves. At that point, computer systems will surpass the ability of humans to comprehend them.

Business Intelligence Systems

A system that provides the right information, to the right user, at the right time. A tool produces the information, but the system ensures that the right information is delivered to the right user at the right time.

BigData

A term used to describe data collections that are characterized by huge volume, rapid velocity, and great variety.

MapReduce

A two-phased technique for harnessing the power of thousands of computers working in parallel. During the first phase, the Map phase, computers work on a task in parallel; during the second phase, the Reduce phase, the work of separate computers is combined, eventually obtaining a single result.

Regression Analysis

A type of supervised data mining that estimates the values of parameters in a linear equation. Used to determine the relative influence of variables on an outcome and also to predict future values of that outcome.

Hadoop

An open-source program supported by the Apache Foundation that manages thousands of computers and which implements MapReduce.

Cluster Analysis

An unsupervised data mining technique whereby statical techniques are used to identify groups of entities that have similar characteristics. A common use of this is to find groups of similar customers in data about customer orders and customer demographics.

Decision Support System

BI systems that support decision-making. Some authors define business intelligence systems as supporting decision making only, in which case they use this older term as a synonym for BI systems.

Semantic Security

Concerns the unintended release of protected information through the release of a combination of reports or documents that are independently not protected.

Structured Data

Data in the form of rows and columns.

Cookie

Data that a Web site stores on your computer to record something about its interaction with you.

Push Publishing

In BI systems, the mode where by the BI system delivers business intelligence according to a schedule, or as a result of an event or particular data condition. The users need not specifically request these kind of BI results.

Pull Publishing

In BI systems, the mode where by users must request BI results.

Data Acquisition

In business intelligence systems, the process of obtaining, cleaning, organizing, relating, and cataloging source data.

Pig

Query language used in Hadoop.

Exception Reports

Reports produced when something out of predefined bounds occur. Example: a report that is produced when the Dow Jones falls below a certain level.

Dynamic Reports

Reports that are generated at the time of request; the reporting system reads the most current data and generates the report using that fresh data. A report on sales today and a report on current stock prices are good examples.

Static Reports

Reports that are prepared once from the underlying data and that do not change. An example is a report of the past years sales.

Data Mining

The application of statistical techniques to find patterns and relationships among data for classification and prediction. These techniques emerged from the combined discipline of statistics, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

Granularity

The level of detail in data. Customer name and account balance is large ----- data. Customer name, balance, and the order details and payment history of every customer order is smaller ------.

BI Analysis

The process of creating business intelligence. The four fundamental categories of this are reporting, data mining, BigData analysis, and knowledge management.

Publish Results

The process of delivering business intelligence to the knowledge workers who need it.

Business Intelligence

The processing of operational data to create information that exposes patterns, relationships, and trends of importance to the organization.

BI Application

The software component of a BI system. Contains the 5 components: hardware, software, data, procedures, and people.

Subscriptions

User requests for particular business intelligence results on a stated schedule or in response to particular events.