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BYU ISYS 201 Bus. Intelligence
Test 1
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Business
Undergraduate 1
02/19/2009

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Term
Data warehouse
Definition
information from operational databases that supports business analysis activities and decision-making tasks
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ETL
Definition
Extraction, Transformation, Loading. Getting info from databases to data warehouses.
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Data mart
Definition
contains a subset of data warehouse information
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multidimensional analysis
Definition
layers of columns and rows
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cube
Definition
representation of multidimensional information
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data mining
Definition
analyzing data to extract information not offered by the raw data alone
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information cleansing/scrubbing
Definition
weeds out and fixes or discards inconsistent, incorrect, or incomplete information
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business intelligence
Definition
information that people use to support their decision-making efforts
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