ITPEC FE Morning October 2018 Question 65

Using accumulated internal and external data, classified and analysed, to speed up decision-making — that is business intelligence.

BI collects data from business systems and outside sources, typically into a data warehouse, and lets managers and staff aggregate, analyse and visualise it (OLAP, dashboards, data mining) so that decisions rest on data and are made faster.

Answer (c)

Why not others:

• •(a) — visualising the business flow and running an improvement cycle on it continuously is BPM (business process management)
• •(b) — drastically rebuilding business processes without being bound by current practice is BPR (business process reengineering)
• •(d) — connecting different in-house systems and integrating their data and processes is EAI (enterprise application integration)

Key rule: BI turns stored data into information for decisions; BPM and BPR change the processes, and EAI connects the systems.

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