BI Reporting Tools

Introduction to BI
Business intelligence systems combine operational data with analytical tools to present complex and competitive information to planners and decision makers. The objective is to improve the timeliness and quality of inputs to the decision process.

Contd..
BI assists in strategic and operational decision making. The strategic use of BI can be seen in : Corporate performance management Optimizing customer relations, monitoring business activity, and traditional decision support. Management reporting of business intelligence.

BI Key Components and Architecture

The different components of BI frame work

ETL tools Data store Data query and analysis tools Data presentation and visualization tools Decision Support Data

Data Analysis
Query and Reporting Multi Dimensional Analysis Data Mining

OLAP
Dimensional modeling is primarily to support OLAP and decision making Drill Down and Roll Up Slice and Dice

OLAP
The basic concepts of OLAP include: Cube Dimension table Dimension Hierarchy Level Fact table Measure Schema

BI reporting tool architectures