Exam 11: Business Intelligence and Decision Support

The IT architecture that is needed for BI depends on each of the following factors except:

What levels of management can today's BI vendors' products and software-as-a-service (SaaS)packages support?

BI systems have eliminated a common organizational problem,which is simultaneously having too much data but somehow not enough.

An advantage of more advanced dashboards is that they present KPIs,trends,and exceptions using __________.

Twitter,Foursquare,and other real-time media add to or leverage capabilities of smartphones--improving your ability to be well-informed in real-time.

The __________ is the infrastructure for new generations of Web and mobile apps.

Text from documents,electronic communications,and e-commerce activities needs to be codified,which is typically done with __________.

Identify three data-related business problems,or difficult situations,which indicate that an organization could benefit from improved intelligence from BI tools.

Which is not one of the characteristics or objectives of data mining?

__________ is used to understand customer online behavior,evaluate a Web site's effectiveness,and quantify the success of a marketing campaign.

Data mining and __________ tools are used to find relationships that are not obvious,or to predict what is going to happen.

Explain data mining.List three characteristics or objectives of data mining.

Which of the following is not one of the three key business goals used to sell management on the need for a BI consolidation program?

Powerful devices using 3G IP-based networks combined with easy-to-use software are unifying communications.

The latest BI tools provide __________,which are reducing managers' dependence on analysts and tech staff.

Describe the mobile intelligence infrastructure.What factors are driving MI? Describe a MI app that you would find valuable as a manager.

__________ is the ability to get to data details at several levels,which can be done by a series of menus or by query.

Decision makers go through four systematic phases.Which is the first phase?

At Jamba Juice,poor quality data was damaging profits so traditional BI was deployed at the __________ level;and operational BI was deployed at the __________ level.

The value of __________ to managers is that these apps pull data from a data warehouse or other data store and then graphically depict the data in meaningful displays.