Re: B.I. Tools

From: Peter Morris <nospam.ple_at_se.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 01:49:49 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <br5u3s$40f$1@sparta.btinternet.com>

"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:1071006133.542458_at_yasure...

> > What is Business Intelligence, then? What do B.I. tools do, exactly?
> >
> > Do you know?
>
> It is a fancy name for "Report Writer" and nothing more.
>
> Now theoretically it means data mining tools and such but the reality is
> Crystal Reports, Cognos, Brio, Discoverer, Business Objects, etc. etc.
etc.

Thanks, now we're getting somewhere.

I've done some work writing reports, for example analysis of traffic on a website, analysis of the database revealed that 21% of visitors to this page
on the website gave their salary as £25K-£35K and stayed for an average 3 min 32 secs, and so on. L:ots of other information, total this and average that, etcetera. The execs could use this information to analyse which are the
most successful pages on the site,and sell advertising space, etc.

This was implemented through stored procedures and SQL.

Do B.I. tools do any more than this? (I presume there must be more to it) Received on Tue Dec 09 2003 - 19:49:49 CST