End-users can utilize the BI tools to "drill-down" and "slice and dice" to gain a better understanding of transactional and operational information; for example, Star Schema and OLAP are usually used for provide this functionality.
Business Intelligence
Customer
Inventory
OLAP
Credit
ETL tools
Data Warehouse
BI
Operation
External
Pivot Table
Business Intelligence
Data Warehouse usually adopts Star Schema data structure for optimizing the performance of data analysis and reporting.
Star Schema
A Star schema is optimized for data analysis as is typically required in a Decision Support System. A star schema has a fact table surrounded by dimension tables
Data Mart
A data mart is a repository of data gathered from operational data and other sources that is designed to serve a particular community of knowledge workers. The data may derive from an enterprise-wide database or data warehouse or be more specialized. The emphasis of a data mart is on meeting the specific demands of a particular group of knowledge users in terms of analysis, content, presentation, and ease-of-use. Users of a data mart can expect to have data presented in terms that are familiar.
Pivot Table
A pivot table is a great reporting tool that allows for slicing and dicing data.
BI vendors
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