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ISDS Exam #1Business intelligence (BI) - correct answer ✔✔Business analytics (BA) and data science (DS) are other
words for...
managerial work - correct answer ✔✔This course tells how smart people are using these computer
technologies to support ____________ - essentially, decision making, in order to improve performance,
service, and relationships in business, government and non-profit worlds.
more difficult - correct answer ✔✔The business environment is becoming more complex and is rapidly
changing, making decision making...
faster and better decisions - correct answer ✔✔Businesses must respond and adapt to the changing
environment rapidly by making...
shrinking; expanding; Decision Support System - correct answer ✔✔The time frame for making decisions
is ___________, whereas the global nature of decision making is __________, necessitating the
development and use of Decision Support Systems
semi-structured and some unstructured problems - correct answer ✔✔DSS use data, models, and
sometimes knowledge management to find solutions for...
1980s - correct answer ✔✔Mainframes were "black holes", information went in but very little came out,
ad hoc querying was impossible, relational databases began to be used, disjointed information systems
began to be integrated
1990s - correct answer ✔✔The need for more versatile reporting than what was available in the 1980s
era, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) led to the development of executive information systems
2000s - correct answer ✔✔the data warehouse-driven, decision support systems began to be called BI
systems
, 2010s - correct answer ✔✔major commercial business intelligence (BI) products and services were well
established.
Business intelligence (broad) - correct answer ✔✔An umbrella term that combines architectures, tools,
databases, analytical tools, applications, and methodologies
Business intelligence (narrow) - correct answer ✔✔Descriptive analytics tools and techniques (i.e.,
reporting tools
information; decisions; actions - correct answer ✔✔The process of BI is based on the transformation of
data to ___________, then to _________, and finally to ____________.
information; time; place - correct answer ✔✔It is a competitive imperative for managers to have the
right __________ at the right __________ and in the right _________. This is a mantra for modern
approaches to BI.
Data warehouse, business analytics, business performance management, user interface - correct answer
✔✔Four major components of a Business Intelligence system
Data warehouse - correct answer ✔✔A distinct system that provides storage for data from multiple
sources that will be made use of in analysis.
Business analytics - correct answer ✔✔a collection of tools for manipulating, mining, and analyzing the
data in the data warehouse
Business performance management - correct answer ✔✔for monitoring and analyzing performance and
for strategy
User interface - correct answer ✔✔(e.g., browser, portal, dashboard) for data visualization.
Data warehouse - correct answer ✔✔BI methods utilize a central repository called a __________ that
enables efficient data mining, OLAP, BPM, and data visualization.
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