Software Requirements, 3rd Edition

Chapter 25. Business analytics projects

Most normal people don’t look at data sets just for fun. They study views of the data to make decisions about what to do, be it a decision to take some specific action or a decision to do nothing at all. In some cases, software systems automate the decision-making processes by interpreting data and taking actions based on predefined algorithms and rules. The main purpose of business analytics (also called business intelligence or reporting) projects is to develop systems that turn large and often highly complex data sets into meaningful information from which decisions can be made. Many other classes of projects might have business analytics components; the concepts presented in this chapter apply to those ...