Chapter 3. Building Business Intelligence for Your Office Business Applications

Business intelligence (BI) is not a new concept. In fact, BI has been around in some fashion since the late 1980s, and in many ways data still lies at the heart of much of the application development that is done today. You might argue that over time the function of BI has not changed drastically; that is, it still represents a way of processing and visualizing data so as to make business decisions. That said, the way in which we process and ...

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