8 Mining Your Own Business in Telecoms Using DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data
2.1 Business Intelligence
Traditionally, information systems have been designed to process discrete
transactions in order to automate tasks, such as order entry, or account
transactions. These systems however are not designed to support users who
wish to extract data at different aggregation levels and utilize advanced methods
for data analysis. Apart from these, systems tend to be isolated to support a
single business system. This results in a great challenge when requiring a
consolidated view of the state of your business.
This is where data warehouse and analytical tools come to your aid.
2.2 Data warehouse
Figure 2-1 shows the entire data warehouse architecture in ...