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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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Choosing the Reporting Tools: 5 Things You Need To Know

FineReport

The ‘data’ part is like the reporting software, which is statistics and presentation of data. . ‘Business understanding’ means realizing in-depth data analysis and smart data forecast, via BI functions such as OLAP analysis, data mining, and so on.

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What Is Embedded Analytics?

Jet Global

Users Want to Help Themselves Data mining is no longer confined to the research department. Today, every professional has the power to be a “data expert.” Modern Data Sources Painlessly connect with modern data such as streaming, search, big data, NoSQL, cloud, document-based sources. Read carefully.