Exam 4: Business Reporting, Visual Analytics, and Business Performance Management

Which kind of chart is described as an enhanced variant of a scatter plot?

In the Mace case study, the IBM Cognos software enabled the rapid creation of integrated reports across 60 countries, replacing a large and complex ________.

With the balanced scorecard approach, the entire focus is on measuring and managing specific financial goals based on the organization's strategy.

The ________ perspective of the organization suggested by the balanced scorecard focuses on business processes and how well they are running.

With a dashboard, information on sources of the data being presented, the quality and currency of underlying data provide contextual ________ for users.

The Internet emerged as a new medium for visualization and brought all the following EXCEPT

The balanced scorecard is a type of report that is based solely on financial metrics.

There are basic chart types and specialized chart types. A Gantt chart is a specialized chart type.

Which of the following is LEAST related to data/information visualization?

All of the following statements about balanced scorecards and dashboards are true EXCEPT

All of the following are true about external reports between businesses and the government EXCEPT

________ management reports are used to manage business performance through outcome-oriented metrics in many organizations.

In the Blastrac case study, Tableau analytics software was used to replace massive ________ that were loaded with data from multiple ERP systems.

For those executives who do not have the time to go through lengthy reports, the best alternative is the

Which type of visualization tool can be very helpful when the intention is to show relative proportions of dollars per department allocated by a university administration?

Contextual metadata for a dashboard includes all the following EXCEPT

List and describe the three major categories of business reports.

What are the three nonfinancial objectives of the balanced scorecard?

Kaplan and Norton developed a report that presents an integrated view of success in the organization called

In the FEMA case study, the BureauNet software was the primary reason behind the increased speed and relevance of the reports FEMA employees received.