Business Intelligence (BI)

Umbrella term

• Applications, infrastructure and tools
• Best practices
• Access to and analysis of information
• Improvement and optimization of decisions and performance
• Support for strategic, tactical and operational decisions

BI Views

Data Warehouse

According to Imnon, a Data Warehouse is a

• Subject oriented - data are organized around sales, products, etc.
• Integrated - data from multiple sources are combined
• Time-variant - data is stored to provide historical perspective
• Non-volatile - data are usually not updated

collection of data

• usually used to improve decision making
• single point of truth (SPOT)

Architecture