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A. KhanVisual Analytics for Dashboardshttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0119-8_1

1. Dashboards

Arshad Khan1  
(1)
Tracy, CA, USA
 

Business Intelligence

Objective and Technologies

Business intelligence, or BI, is a decision support system. It aims to help make business decisions, strategic as well as operational/tactical. It uses an assortment of resources and techniques for gathering, transforming, storing, and analyzing data, including processes, technologies, applications, quality, skills, practices, and risks.

The technologies utilized include data warehousing, multi-dimensional analysis (Online Analytical Processing—OLAP), data mining, analytical and statistical ...

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