Facilitating Operations: Analytic Services
Portals lend themselves to a variety of techniques for sharing information and knowledge. Data warehouses are the foundation for historical operational information; document management and collaboration tools support knowledge management practices, and specialized analytic applications provide domain-specific functions.
Analytic services can span a wide range of topics and typically have small user bases, especially compared with data warehouse users. Examples include modeling programs used by geologists in the oil and gas industry, statistical analysis programs used by pharmaceutical researchers analyzing the results of preclinical tests, financial modeling programs used by actuaries, signal modeling ...
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