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Business intelligence is a data analysis process aimed at boosting business performance by helping corporate executives and other end users make more informed decisions.

Business intelligence (BI) is a technology-driven process for analyzing data and presenting actionable information to help corporate executives, business managers and other end users make more informed business decisions.

BI encompasses a variety of tools, applications and methodologies that enable organizations to collect data from internal systems and external sources, prepare it for analysis, develop and run queries against the data, and create reports, dashboards and data visualizations to make the analytical results available to corporate decision makers as well as operational workers.

With their inclusion in Excel standalone, at a cost of less than £100, any financial barrier to obtaining the benefit of these features is greatly reduced.

Excel 2013 Standalone Volume License and Standalone Retail 32-bit and 64-bit.

PowerPivot and the two new add-ins - PowerView and Inquire, are only available on certain SKUs (versions). These include:

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number of attributes (properties and parameters) which can be used to describe them are potentially vast, but the number of attributes which will actually apply to a given entity are relatively modest.

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For example, suppose you want to add support for MySQL. (As of OWB 11g R2, MySQL is not on the list of supported by default platforms.) All you need to do, though, is download the MySQL JDBC driver to put it into the OWB_HOME/owb/lib/ext directory, and add the platform definition for MySQL via a Tcl script that you can run from the OMB Plus console. The contents of such a script is beyond the scope of this article. However, if you want to look at one, check out this post by David Allan, where you’ll find a detailed example of how you can add support for MySQL to Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g Release 2. Also, there is a whitepaper on OTN called the "OWB Platform and Application Adapter Extensibility Cookbook", which goes into more depth than David’s post.

Business Intelligence And Big Data, Q4 2012 survey of 634 BI users and planners, we found that social and mobile data is actually a pretty low priority: While big data technologies like Hadoop can definitely deal with over-hyped new data like mobile and social, the broad demand is simply not there yet. Instead we find leaders recognize that the big deal about big data is the potential for getting more value more quickly from more data, at a lower cost and with greater agility; and it is a whole range of technologies and new techniques that make more possible.

Dezvoltarea afacerilor aduce cu sine întrebări din ce în ce mai complexe: care este cel mai profitabil produs pe care îl vând? Care este evoluţia marjei mele de profit pe produsul X de-a lungul ultimilor ani? Cum pot fi reduse eficient cheltuielile operaţionale fără a afecta performanţa afacerii? Cum pot fi reduse pierderile pe lanţul de aprovizionare sau pe circuitul de producţie? Care este volumul de afaceri pe care îl fac cu furnizorul Y şi ce discount aş putea solicita în perioada următoare? Care este cel mai performant vânzător al meu? etc…

Sigur, răspunsuri la întrebări complexe pot fi obţinute şi fără aportul soluţiilor de „business intelligence” insă de cele mai multe ori obţinerea rezultatelor dorite presupune cel puţin: personal specializat (analişti), inevitabila eroare umană şi mai ales timp. Timp petrecut cu activităţi repetitive de extragere a datelor, de formatare a acestora, de definire a diverselor formule şi calcule necesare etc. Mai mult decât atât, datele odată extrase din sistemul de gestiune şi „împrăştiate” la diverse nivele din organizaţie (sub forma de fişiere text, Excel sau DBF) îşi pierd proprietăţi precum integritate, acurateţe, confidenţialitate şi, poate cea mai importantă, credibilitate.

Alternativa? Un sistem ce poate gestiona în mod automat transformarea datelor în informaţie şi accesul la aceasta în funcţie de rolul utilizatorului în cadrul organizaţiei, în mod securizat, cu posibilitatea interacţiunii facile cu datele şi generarea de rapoarte şi analize complexe din câteva click-uri de mouse. Şi acestea sunt numai câteva din facilităţile oferite de furnizorii soluţiilor de „business intelligence”.