Primary Features That Every Business Intelligence Solution Must Contain
Introduction to Business Intelligence •
Plays a primary role in making business strategies
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Use various tools, methodologies, and applications to complete tasks
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Creates Dashboards, Reports and their analysis, and preforms data visualization
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Commonly used in market research, product profitability, customer support etc.
4 categories of BI Solution Features •
High level Features: Contains the features that are a part of the software
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Security Features: Describes control levels on the data, BI Apps and user access
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Must-Contain Applications: Gives outline for the applications to be created by the BI Software
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Advanced Features: Gives outline for the uncommon features only an Advanced BI solution can have
High-Level Features •
Open Architecture: Open Architecture works better with other software and platforms ; it doesn’t tie up the user to any particular platform or a vendor
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Real -Time Data: Decisions are made based on the most recent data and a good BI solution develop apps that provides real time data, fetched from the Database
Security Features •
Application Level Security: Restricts the access of information depending upon the users
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User-Specific Data Sources: Provides flexibility to developers, as they can control access to database at the user level.
Must-Contain Applications •
Ranking Report: Lets the users quickly see the positive and the negative aspect of the business decisions
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Executive Dashboards: Gives a real-time view of the business and alerts the organizations about the future risks
Advanced Features •
Intelligent Alerts: Turns Business Intelligence into a proactive solution from a static solution
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White Labeling: Provides a consistent user interface that helps in improving the understanding of application usage, easily