Chapter 9: Business Intelligence Systems Exam

business intelligence (BI) systems - Answer- information systems that process operational, social, and other data to identify patterns, relationships, and trends for use by business professionals business intelligence - Answer- patterns, relationships, trends, and predictions in a BI system BI system's 5 components - Answer- hardware software data procedures people organizational use of BI (heirarchy, top of pyramic is #1) - Answer- 1. project management 2. problem solving 3. deciding 4. informing note: informing needed to decide; deciding needed prior to problem solving; problem solving necessary for project management decision support systems - Answer- synonym for "decision-making BI systems"; not used in the rest of the chapter T or F: business intelligence is used to predict purchasing patterns & changes in purchasing patterns - Answer- T predictive policing - Answer- police departments analyze data on past crimes, including location, date, time, day of week, type of crime, and related data, to predict where crimes are likely to occur; they then station police personnel in the best locations for preventing those crimes 3 primary activities in the BI process - Answer- 1. acquire data 2. perform analysis 3. publish results data acquisition - Answer- the process of obtaining, cleansing, organizing, relating, and cataloging source data BI analysis - Answer- the process of creating business intelligence 4 fundamental categories of BI analysi - Answer- reporting data mining BigData knowledge management publish results - Answer- process of delivering business intelligence to the knowlege workers who need it; last activity in the BI process push publishing - Answer- deliveres BI to users without any request from the users; BI results are delivered according to a schedule or as a result of an event or particular data condition