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Business intelligence

The aggregation, analysis, and reporting of data for the purpose of helping businesses make informed decisions.

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Semi-structured data

Business services; Business intelligence

A form of structured data that does not conform with the formal structure of data models associated with relational databases or other forms of data tables, but nonetheless contains tags or other ...

Distributed computing

Business services; Business intelligence

A field of computer science that studies distributed systems which consist of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network.

Service-oriented architecture (SOA)

Business services; Business intelligence

A set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services.

Binary large object (BLOB)

Business services; Business intelligence

A collection of binary data stored as a single entity in a database management system.

Relational database

Business services; Business intelligence

A collection of data items organised as a set of formally described tables from which data can be accessed easily.

Data warehouse

Business services; Business intelligence

A database used for reporting and data analysis. It is a central repository of data which is created by integrating data from multiple disparate sources.

Decision making

Business services; Business intelligence

The mental processes (cognitive process) resulting in the selection of a course of action among several alternative scenarios.

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