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Sartaj Singh, Lovely Professional University
Unit 1: Introduction to Business Intelligence

Unit 1: Introduction to Business Intelligence Notes

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction

1.1 Meaning of Business Intelligence
1.2 History of Business Intelligence
1.2.1 The Data Warehouse

1.2.2 Offline Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
1.2.3 Data-Mining Engines
1.2.4 Reporting Tools
1.2.5 Data Marts
1.3 Purpose of Business Intelligence Systems

1.4 Structure of Intelligence Systems
1.4.1 Business Intelligence Applications
1.4.2 Decision Support Tools

1.4.3 Access Enablers
1.4.4 Data Management
1.4.5 Data Warehouse Modelling
1.5 Summary
1.6 Keywords

1.7 Review Questions
1.8 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:

Discuss the meaning of Business Intelligence
Explore history of Business Intelligence
State the purpose of Business Intelligence Systems

Construct structure of Intelligence Systems
Introduction

Business Intelligence (BI) is a set of ideas, methodologies, processes, architectures, and
technologies that change raw data into significant and useful data for business purpose. Business
Intelligence can handle large amounts of data to help identify and evolve new opportunities for
the business. Making use of these new opportunities and applying a productive scheme on it can
provide a comparable market benefit and long-term stability.

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