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

CIO Business Intelligence

ERP dashboards. These DSS include systems that use accounting and financial models, representational models, and optimization models. They generally leverage simple statistical and analytical tools, but Power notes that some OLAP systems that allow complex analysis of data may be classified as hybrid DSS systems. Clinical DSS.

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What Role Does Data Mining Play for Business Intelligence?

Jet Global

Business intelligence (BI) software can help by combining online analytical processing (OLAP), location intelligence, enterprise reporting, and more. If data is the fuel driving opportunities for optimization, data mining is the engine—converting that raw fuel into forward motion for your business.

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The Enterprise AI Revolution Starts with BI

Jet Global

The optimized data warehouse isn’t simply a number of relational databases cobbled together, however—it’s built on modern data storage structures such as the Online Analytical Processing (or OLAP) cubes. Cubes are multi-dimensional datasets that are optimized for analytical processing applications such as AI or BI solutions.

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Navigating Data Entities, BYOD, and Data Lakes in Microsoft Dynamics

Jet Global

Online analytical processing (OLAP), which enabled users to quickly and easily view data along different dimensions, was coming of age. The challenge with OLAP, however, is that it requires intensive processing power to aggregate data according to various categories or dimensions. Data warehouses have been in widespread use for years.

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The Future of AI in the Enterprise

Jet Global

The optimized data warehouse isn’t simply a number of relational databases cobbled together, however—it’s built on modern data storage structures such as the Online Analytical Processing (or OLAP) cubes. Cubes are multi-dimensional datasets that are optimized for analytical processing applications such as AI or BI solutions.

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Understanding Data Entities in Microsoft Dynamics 365

Jet Global

For anyone that needs to develop custom reports and dashboards, it all begins with understanding data entities. Jet Analytics provides a pre-built data warehouse , OLAP cubes , and tabular models with a platform for non-technical users to easily create their own reports in Excel or Power BI. What Are Data Entities?

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Financial Intelligence vs. Business Intelligence: What’s the Difference?

Jet Global

This practice, together with powerful OLAP (online analytical processing) tools, grew into a body of practice that we call “business intelligence.” It seeks to optimize performance by identifying opportunities and challenges as soon as they emerge.