Business intelligence (BI) refers to skills, technologies,
applications and practices used to help a
business
acquire a better understanding of its commercial context. Business intelligence
may also refer to the collected information itself.
BI technologies provide historical, current, and predictive views of business
operations. Common functions of business intelligence technologies are
reporting,
OLAP,
analytics,
data
mining,
business performance management
, and
predictive analytics. Business intelligence often aims to support better business decision-making. Thus a BI
system can be called a
decision support system(DSS).
Business Intelligence creates high-performance Analysis Services solutions with
improved cube designers, subspace computation, and MOLAP enabled write-back
capabilities. It also Implements more and more responsive Reporting Services
solutions through enhancements to on-demand processing and instance-based
rendering. It especially builds flexible and effective reports with the new
Tabular data structure and rich formatting capabilities and hence publishing these reports securely on large platform being internet in this case.
Use intuitive wizards
& innovative tools for building integration, reporting & analytic solutions
within a single environment.Realize increased developer productivity and design
comprehensive BI solutions by using rich feature sets, and dynamic rows by using
the new Tablix report design template that enables data presentation scenarios
that have previously been difficult or impossible to build. Incorporate rich
formatting in reports to increase usability. BI basically reduces management
overheads by focusing on high-value tasks while spending less time on routine
maintainance and tuning operations,by using the unified management tool to
provide an integrated management experience across all SQL Server technologies
for increased productivity,flexibility and manageability.
Business Intelligence at College level :
