Exam 11: Business Intelligence and Decision Support

A decision __________ is a simplified representation,or abstraction of reality.

When you search for a certain book on Amazon.com,the site uses predictive and visualization tools to cross-sell by presenting to you a list of books purchased by customers who had bought that book.

A key benefit of DSSs is that they make it easy for manager to perform __________,which is the study of the impact that changes in one or more parts of a model have on the outcome.

In a __________,you are trying to find what others have prepared.With __________,you are trying to discover new patterns that may not be obvious or known.

According to Morgan Stanley's Global Mobile Internet Report (2009),__________ may be the fastest growing and most disruptive technology we have ever seen.

Knowing how to interpret and act on the results from queries,reports,or analytics depends on BI capabilities.

Managers rely on business intelligence,data mining,and the decision support systems in order to minimize __________.

__________ BI apps use real-time or near real-time data in order to support line managers who need to monitor performance of his or her business processes.

__________ decisions are so well-defined that they can be automated or become standard operating procedures (SOPs)and do not require a DSS to solve.

An advantage of __________ is that they are a way to access a particular view of data or to analyze what's happening.

Why does UPS use data analysis and visualization as part of its tactical and strategic planning process?

__________ tools,e.g. ,dashboards and mashups,are the user-interfaces that help people understand the numbers.

Multidimensional (3D)views of data,such as sales revenue data,are referred to as __________.

Basic components of a DSS include each of the following except:

WildTrack is using a BI data analysis solution from SAS to track and monitor their constantly changing __________,which are endangered African rhinos.

Data mining is important in detecting __________,especially in insurance claims and credit card use.

Justifying an IT investment is also known as making a __________ for it.

Extracted data,particularly when it's extracted from multiple sources,is not in usable format.Because of this problem,__________ tools have to map the field names of the same data types;and then reformat the data itself into a standard format.

Which is not a characteristic or benefit of BI?

When you need to justify an IT investment,a(n)__________ is required to document your initiative and to move it through the approval and funding process.