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The terminology, tools, and technologies include (with links to the relevant Wikipedia entries):
- Reporting: standard reports, parameterized reports, ad-hoc reports, desktop reporting, report bursting,
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- enterprise reporting
- Data transformations: Extract-Transform-Load (ETL), Extract-Transform-Load (ELT)
- Dashboards,
- Analysis: slice-and-dice, pivot tables, on-line analytical processing (OLAP), cubes, dimensions and hierarchies, drill-downs
*Storage Models: data marts, data warehouses
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- , star schemas, snowflake schemas, fact tables, de-normalization,
- Predictive Analytics: data mining, predictivea analytics, machine learning
- Analytical applications: balanced scorecards
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- Flavors: operational BI, real-time BI
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Describe (briefly):
- Reporting, analysis, dashboards, ad-hoc, OLAP
- Historical / trending vs live / operational reporting
- Transactional vs operation data store vs data-mart / data-warehouses.
- ETL
- Dimensions, attributes, measures, and keys
- Typical architectures
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