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What is Business Intelligence?

Business Intelligence is essentially everything that is useds for the analysis of Business Information. Intelligence, and the technologies used to facilitate it, seek to provide historical, current state and predictive views of business operations.

BI seeks to provide the easy interpretation of big data, in order to develop new business opportunities for the client - often in the form of enterprise technology.

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Types of Business Intelligence System

The most common kinds of Business Intelligence systems are as follows: 

• EIS - Executive Information Systems
• OLAP - Online Analytical Processing and multidimensional analysis
• CRM - Customer Relationship Management
• DSS - Decision Support Systems
• MIS - Management Information Systems
• GIS - Geographic Information Systems

Business Intelligence  Resources

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About the Presentation

Presented by Tze Chiam, PhD Associate Director, Research Informatics, Christiana Care Health System

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