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

CIO Business Intelligence

The concept of DSS grew out of research conducted at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in the 1950s and 1960s, but really took root in the enterprise in the 1980s in the form of executive information systems (EIS), group decision support systems (GDSS), and organizational decision support systems (ODSS). ERP dashboards.

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Reporting Analytics vs. Financial Reporting: Is There a Difference?

Jet Global

Multi-dimensional analysis is sometimes referred to as “OLAP”, which stands for “online analytical processing.” Technically speaking, OLAP refers to methodologies for producing multidimensional analysis on high-volume data sets.). That may prompt further investigation and could reveal insights as to the appropriate corrective action.

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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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What’s the Difference Between Business Intelligence and Business Analytics?

Sisense

BA and BI are broad terms covering all kinds of technologies and approaches – and, to add to the confusion, are often used interchangeably. See an example: Explore Dashboard. Another argument is that BA is simply the user-facing, self-service end of BI – the dashboards and displays. Is there a difference at all? Confused yet?

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The Business Intelligence Market – What’s Old is New

In(tegrate) the Clouds

Thanks to The OLAP Report for lots of great market materials. Comshare, Pilot, Metaphor, watch out here comes some more: OLAP, ROLAP, HOLAP, MOLAP now my head hurts. OLAP for the masses, gents? OLAP Services, TM1, Pablo, Wired, and Crystal fun. BI portals, real-time, dashboards and visualization look fine.

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The Future of AI in the Enterprise

Jet Global

While the technology behind enabling computers to simulate human thought has been developing, at times slowly, over the past half-century, the cost of implementation, readily available access to cloud computing, and practical business use cases are primed to help AI make a dramatic impact in the enterprise over the next few years.

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

Jet Global

Finance leaders that were quick to recognize the new paradigm got a head start, using the new technology to make their organizations more efficient and profitable. Over the past few decades, however, technology has been closing that gap. Today’s technology takes this evolution a step further.