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Unit 5: Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform

5.10 Review Questions Notes

1. What are the key factors that determine a company’s choice of BI solutions?
2. What is the Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform?

3. What are the key benefit areas of Microsoft business intelligence?
4. Briefly explain the capabilities of Microsoft business intelligence.
5. What are the requirements in Business intelligence platform?
6. What are the uses of Microsoft BI Services?
7. Write short note on Microsoft’s business intelligence platform strategy.

8. Discuss the IBM’s business intelligence platform strategy.
9. What is the Hyperion’s Business Intelligence Platform Scheme?
10. Write down the features in Business intelligence development studio.

11. Provide details for menus in business intelligence development studio.
12. Discuss the extract transform load.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. Client population 2. Excel
3. Microsoft’s BI 4. Integration costs
5. Search engine 6. ETL (Extract, change, burden)

7. Business intelligence 8. Data mining
9. data warehouse databases 10. . NET servers
11. Partnerships 12. Hyperion
13. Oracle 14. Edit

15. View 16. Tools
17. Window 18. False
19. False 20. True

5.11 Further Readings

Books Carlo Vercellis (2011). “Business Intelligence: Data Mining and Optimization for Decision
Making”. John Wiley & Sons.
David Loshin (2012). “Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager’s Guide”. Newnes.
Elizabeth Vitt, Michael Luckevich, Stacia Misner (2010). “Business Intelligence”.
O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Rajiv Sabhrwal, Irma Becerra-Fernandez (2010). “Business Intelligence”. John
Wiley & Sons.

Swain Scheps (2013). “Business Intelligence for Dummies”. Wiley.

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