Business Intelligence (BI) Service*

Additional Information

Functional Requirements

• Update data warehouse information.
• Retrieve data warehouse information for business intelligence.
• Support OLAP (online analytical analysis tools).
• Support data mining tools with proper statistical analysis and pattern recognition techniques to answer business questions.
• Support discovery of information that is hidden or not apparent through typical query and analysis tools.
• Support Web mining  to analyze the "clickstreams" (the log of users clicking for different Web pages).
• Provide management/operational staff needs in gaining business intelligence.
• Support Web browser based tools  to support widely distributed customers .

• Enterprise reporting (using dashboards and scorecards)
• Visualizations, gamification and simulation of real time activities
• Cube analysis (also known as slice-and-dice analysis)
• Statistical analysis: descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analysis reports
• Data mining, web mining, and text mining analysis
• Routine report delivery and alerting
• Ad-hoc queries