Chapter 1
Business Intelligence and Information Exploitation
Over the past few decades there has been a monumental transition regarding the creation, collection, and use of data. While great strides have been made in data management, there is always the desire to extract business value hidden within the piles (or rather “mountains”) of bits and bytes that today are not only stored within structured data systems, but are captured, stored, managed, shared, and distributed across different file formats, representative structures, and even as unstructured data assets.
But imagine if you had the power to filter out and deliver the gems of knowledge to the right decision-makers that can trigger the right kinds of choices and actions at the optimal ...
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