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Data Mining – useful or not?

Jen Stirrup

What distinguishes Data Mining from other methods of exploring data, and what is its usefulness? Critics might say that if you torture the data enough, it will eventually confess! Computers contain lots of data, but people need help to turn this data into intelligence.

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What Role Does Data Mining Play for Business Intelligence?

Jet Global

But data alone is not the answer—without a means to interact with the data and extract meaningful insight, it’s essentially useless. Business intelligence (BI) software can help by combining online analytical processing (OLAP), location intelligence, enterprise reporting, and more. Let’s introduce the concept of data mining.

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What are decision support systems? Sifting data for better business decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

A DSS leverages a combination of raw data, documents, personal knowledge, and/or business models to help users make decisions. The data sources used by a DSS could include relational data sources, cubes, data warehouses, electronic health records (EHRs), revenue projections, sales projections, and more.

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Business Intelligence Solutions: Every Thing You Need to Know

FineReport

Technicals such as data warehouse, online analytical processing (OLAP) tools, and data mining are often binding. On the opposite, it is more of a comprehensive application of data warehouse, OLAP, data mining, and so forth. BI software solutions (by FineReport).

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Business Intelligence System: Definition, Application & Practice

FineReport

When we talk about business intelligence system, it normally includes the following components: data warehouse BI software Users with appropriate analytical. Data analysis and processing can be carried out while ensuring the correctness of data. Data Warehouse. Data Mining. Data Visualization.

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Reporting System: Everything You Need to Know

FineReport

It is composed of three functional parts: the underlying data, data analysis, and data presentation. The underlying data is in charge of data management, covering data collection, ETL, building a data warehouse, etc.

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What is Business Intelligence Consulting

BizAcuity

Thanks to the recent technological innovations and circumstances to their rapid adoption, having a data warehouse has become quite common in various enterprises across sectors. This also applies to businesses that may not have a data warehouse and operate with the help of a backend database system.