Enterprise Business Intelligence Defined
To help you make your way through
the many powerful case studies
and “lessons from the experts”
articles in What Works in
Enterprise Business Intelligence,
we have arranged them into
specific categories: agile business
intelligence, enterprise business
intelligence, managed SaaS
business intelligence, open source
business intelligence, and
predictive analytics and text
mining. What do these terms
mean, and how do they apply to
your organization?
Agile Business Intelligence
Agile business intelligence covers techniques
and methods for delivering BI solutions faster
and with higher degrees of user satisfaction,
such as agile software development techniques
and other methods and tools that accelerate
development, testing, and deployment.
Enterprise Business Intelligence
Enterprise business intelligence is the deployment
of BI throughout an enterprise, usually
through the combination of an enterprise data
warehouse and an enterprise license to a BI
platform or tool set that can be used by
business users in various roles.
Managed SaaS Business Intelligence
Software-as-a-service enables business intelligence
customers to run BI applications via
a hosted service by uploading their data and
configuring an online application to meet their
needs. Then users simply point their Web
browsers to the service, log in, and begin
viewing and interacting with reports and dashboards
containing their data.
Open Source Business Intelligence
Open source business intelligence tools are
available through an open source license,
which means they can be downloaded and
used free of charge—but many open source
BI tools also offer a premium version with
additional features for a fee.
Predictive Analytics and Text Mining
Predictive analytics includes techniques for
identifying relationships and patterns in large
volumes of data and using those patterns to
create predictive models. Text mining parses
unstructured data (text, mostly) so entities
can be stored in databases along with structured
data and then queried to create reports
and analyses.
This article originally appeared in the issue of .