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Business Intelligence Infrastructure

A contemporary business intelligence infrastructure provides tools to obtain useful information from various data sources, including semi-structured and unstructured big data. These capabilities include data warehouses, data marts, Hadoop, in-memory computing, and analytical platforms, some available as cloud services. It allows businesses to analyze vast amounts of structured and unstructured data from various sources to improve decision making.

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Business Intelligence Infrastructure

A contemporary business intelligence infrastructure provides tools to obtain useful information from various data sources, including semi-structured and unstructured big data. These capabilities include data warehouses, data marts, Hadoop, in-memory computing, and analytical platforms, some available as cloud services. It allows businesses to analyze vast amounts of structured and unstructured data from various sources to improve decision making.

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Business Intelligence Infrastructure

A contemporary infrastructure for business intelligence has an array of tools for obtaining useful
information from all the different types of data used by businesses today, including semi-structured and
unstructured big data in vast quantities. These capabilities include data warehouses and data marts,
Hadoop, in-memory computing, and analytical platforms. Some of these capabilities are available as
cloud services.

What are the major capabilities of DBMS, and why is a relational DBMS so powerful?

The principal capabilities of a DBMS include a data definition capability, a data dictionary capability, and
a data manipulation language. The data definition capability specifies the structure and content of the
database. The data dictionary is an automated or manual file that stores information about the data in
the database, including names, definitions, formats, and descriptions of data elements. The data
manipulation language, such as SQL, is a specialized language for accessing and manipulating the data in
the database. The relational database has been the primary method for organizing and maintaining data
in information systems because it is so flexible and accessible. It organizes data in two-dimensional
tables called relations with rows and columns. Each table contains data about an entity and its attributes.
Each row represents a record, and each column represents an attribute or field. Each table also contains
a key field to uniquely identify each record for retrieval or manipulation. Relational database tables can
be combined easily to deliver data required by users, provided that any two tables share a common data
element. Non-relational databases are becoming popular for managing types of data that can’t be
handled easily by the relational data model. Both relational and non-relational database products are
available as cloud computing services. Designing a database requires both a logical design and a physical
design. The logical design models the database from a business perspective. The organization’s data
model should reflect its key business processes and decision-making requirements. The process of
creating small, stable, flexible, and adaptive data structures from complex groups of data when designing
a relational database is termed normalization. A well-designed relational database will not have many-
to-many relationships, and all attributes for a specific entity will only apply to that entity. It will try to
enforce referential integrity rules to ensure that relationships between coupled tables remain consistent.
An entityrelationship diagram graphically depicts the relationship between entities (tables) in a relational
database.

What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases to improve
business performance and decision making?

Contemporary data management technology has an array of tools for obtaining useful information from
all the different types of data used by businesses today, including semi-structured and unstructured big
data in vast quantities. These capabilities include data warehouses and data marts, Hadoop, in-memory
computing, and analytical platforms. OLAP represents relationships among data as a multidimensional
structure, which can be visualized as cubes of data and cubes within cubes of data, enabling more
sophisticated data analysis. Data mining analyzes large pools of data, including the contents of data
warehouses, to find patterns and rules that can be used to predict future behavior and guide decision
making. Text mining tools help businesses analyze large unstructured data sets consisting of text. Web
mining tools focus on analysis of useful patterns and information from the Web, examining the structure
of websites and activities of website users as well as the contents of webpages. Conventional databases
can be linked via middleware to the web or a web interface to facilitate user access to an organization’s
internal data.

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