wikipedia Wikipedia describes 'Business Intelligence' :
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The terminology, tools, and technologies include (with links to the relevant Wikipedia entries): standard reports, parameterized reports, ad-hoc reports, desktop reporting, report bursting, data transformations, dashboards, slice-and-dice, pivot tables, on-line analytical processing (OLAP), cubes, dimensions and hierarchies, data marts, data warehouses, drill-downs, star schemas, snowflake schemas, fact tables, de-normalization, balanced scorecards, operational BI, real-time BI.
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