Exam 9: Business Intelligence

Data marts must be designed from scratch as a complete,individual,miniature data warehouse.

The process of data mining consists of two primary processes: data repository creation and deployment.

Measures are ___________________ that track progress in executing chosen strategies to attain organizational objectives and goals.

____________________ designer BPM software enables business managers and analysts to design a business process complete with all of the associated forms,business rules,role definitions,and integration to other systems involved in the process.

____ involves trying various models and selecting the best one based on its ability to explain the variability in the existing data.

Organizations often employ ____ to make predictions about future conditions and then make adjustments in staffing,purchasing,financing,and other operational areas to better meet forecasted needs.

Organizations must be extremely careful to protect the data they use in their BI applications.

Most organizations have invested in some ___________________ tools to help their employees get the data they need to solve a problem or identify an opportunity.

End users can even employ tools such as the ____ to perform "what if" analysis to evaluate various alternatives.

____ is a BI tool used to explore large amounts of data for hidden patterns to predict future trends and behaviors for use in decision making.

The Federal Transportation Security Administration (TSA)implemented a BI system called the ____ to manage more effectively and schedule its workers.

A data ____ is a database that stores large amounts of historical data in a form that readily supports analysis and management decision making.

Insight designer BPM software typically employs an intuitive,easy-to-use graphical user interface for business users to apply to design the process.

When using the Plan-Do-Check-Act process,the problem-solving team establishes criteria for selecting a solution,generates solution alternatives,selects a solution,and plans how to implement the solution in the ____ step.

A key idea behind the Balanced ___________________ is that financial measures tend to be lag measures,which are difficult to influence directly without addressing issues in the other three perspectives.

____ creates improved feedback loops for the critical processes of the organization so that problems can be identified and eliminated before they become serious.

Some organizations have multiple data marts,each designed to meet the needs of a different organizational business unit.

The ____ is a performance management tool used to track performance over time,communicate and drive organizational strategy,identify strategic initiatives,and conduct periodic performance reviews to assess if goals are being met.

Often the data analyzed by BI software comes from the vast amount of operational information captured by a company's ____________________ systems.

In the Balanced Scorecard,the ____ perspective describes the employee training and corporate cultural attitudes required for both individual and corporate self-improvement.