ISYS- Chapter 1

T/F- The use of dashboards and data visualizations is seldom effective in identifying issues in organizations, as demonstrated by the Silvaris Corporation Case Study.

False

T/F- BI represents a bold new paradigm in which the company's business strategy must be aligned to its business intelligence analysis initiatives.

False**

The filing system developed by Google to handle Big Data storage challenges is known as the ________ Distributed File System.

Hadoop

T/F- Computer applications have moved from transaction processing and monitoring activities to problem analysis and solution applications.

True

T/F- During the early days of analytics, data was often obtained from the domain experts using manual processes to build mathematical or knowledge-based models.

True

Major component of a BI system that is often browser based and often presents a portal or dashboard.

User Interface

The Google search engine is an example of Big Data in that it has to search and index billions of ________________ in fractions of a second for each search.

Web pages

Online transaction processing (OLTP) systems handle a company's routine ongoing business. In contrast, a data warehouse is typically...

a distinct system that provides storage for data that will be made use of in analysis

Online transaction processing (OLTP) systems handle a company's routine ongoing business. In contrast, a data warehouse is typically

a distinct system that provides storage for data that will be made use of in analysis.

Umbrella term that combines architectures, tools, databases, analytical tools, applications, and methodologies?

BI

_______________ cycle times are now extremely compressed, faster, and more informed across industries.

Business

Relational databased began to be used in the...

1980s

Today, many vendors offer diversified tools, some of which are completely preprogrammed (called shells). How are these shells utilized?

All a user needs to do is insert the numbers.

Data warehouses are intended to work with informational data used for online ________ processing systems.

Analytical

Organizations using BI systems are typically seeking to ________ the gap between the operational data and strategic objectives has become more pressing.

Close

How are enterprise resources planning (ERP) systems related to supply chain management (SCM) systems?

Complementary systems

The need for more versatile reporting than what was available in 1980s era ERP systems led to the development of what type of system?

Executive Information System (EIS)

T/F- Computerized support is only used for organizational decisions that are responses to external pressures, not for taking advantage of opportunities.

False

T/F- Decision support system (DDS) and management information systems (MIS) have precise definitions agreed to by practitioners.

False

T/F- Information systems that support such transactions as ATM withdrawals, bank deposits, and cash register scans at the grocery store represent transaction processing, a critical branch of BI.

False

T/F- Managing information on operations, customers, internal procedures and employee interactions is the domain of cognitive science.

False

T/F- The growth in hardware, software, and network capacities has had little impact on modern BI innovations.

False

The programming algorithm developed to handle Big Data computational challenges is known as

Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)**

________ analytics help managers understand probable future outcomes.

Predictive

What type of analytics seeks to recognize what is going on as well as the likely forecast and make decisions to achieve the best performance possible?

Prescriptive

The competitive imperatives for BI include all of the following EXCEPT -Right time -Right place -Right -Right user

Right user

What has caused the growth of the demand for instant, on-demand access to dispersed information?

The more pressing need to close the gap between the operational data and strategic objectives

T/F- Many business users in the 1980s referred to their mainframes as "the black hole," because all the information went into it, but little ever came back and ad hoc real-time querying was virtually impossible.

True

T/F- The use of statistics in baseball by the Oakland Athletics, as described in the Moneyball case study, is an example of the effectiveness of prescriptive analytics.

True

Traditional BI systems use a large volume of static data that has been extracted, cleansed, and loaded into a data warehouse to produce reports and analyses.

True

Software monitors referred to as ________________________ can be placed on a separate server in the network and use event-and process-based approaches to measure and monitor operational processes.

intelligent agents