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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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What Role Does Data Mining Play for Business Intelligence?

Jet Global

The path to doing so begins with the quality and volume of data they are able to collect. But data alone is not the answer—without a means to interact with the data and extract meaningful insight, it’s essentially useless. Toiling Away in the Data Mines.

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Goodbye Oracle Discoverer, Hello Next-Generation Reporting

Jet Global

Using OBIEE as Discoverer’s replacement is intended to help unlock the power of your information with robust reporting, ad hoc query and analysis, OLAP, dashboard, and scorecard functionality that offers the end user an experience that comes with visualization, collaboration, alert capabilities, and more. But does OBIEE stack up?

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What Is Embedded Analytics?

Jet Global

And Manufacturing and Technology, both 11.6 The sample included 1,931 knowledge workers from various industries, including financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing. Internal Application Consider this second example: an internal manufacturing application that helps process $2 million worth of product a year.