TERM 1
What is the significance of storage capacity
and the growth in business intelligence
systems?
DEFINITION 1
In 2002 there was 403 petabytes, in 2007 storage capacity
grew to 2.5 exabytes. (which is equivalent to half the total #
of words ever spoken by humans, or125 times the data in all
U.S. research libraries)
TERM 2
Business Intelligence
DEFINITION 2
somewhere in all that data is business intelligence-
information containing patterns, relationships and trends.
TERM 3
Business Intelligence Systems
DEFINITION 3
(BI system)- is an infomation systems that employs business
intelligence tools to produce and deliver information. *An
information system having all 5 components that delivers the
results of a BI application to user who need those results.
TERM 4
Business Intelligence Tool
DEFINITION 4
(BI tool) One or more computer programs that implement a
particular BI technique. *Implement a particular procedure or
process. *BI tools are categorized in 3 ways -Reporitng tools -
Data miningtools -Knowledge management tools
TERM 5
Reporting Tools
DEFINITION 5
Programs that read data from a varie ty of sources, process that
data, and format it into structured re ports, and deliver those
reports to user who need them. *Us ed primarily for assessment
*Address questions like, what happen ed in the past what is
happening in the current, how do the y compare? *use simple
operations like sorting, grouping, calcu lating, filtering and
formatting.
