Business Intelligence and Analytics

The set of strategies and technologies used by various enterprises mainly for data analysis of business information is known as business intelligence. Diverse functions of business intelligence technologies involve reporting, business performance management, benchmarking, complex event processing, etc. Historical, current and predictive views of business operations are provided in business intelligence technologies. By enabling electronic data interchange and data sharing, it can facilitate collaboration both inside and outside the business. Business analytics refers to the skills, practices and technologies used for continuous iterative investigation and exploration of previous business performance. Its main purpose is business planning. Analytics involves online analytical processing, prescriptive and predictive analytics, data and process mining, etc. This book elucidates the concepts and innovative models around prospective developments with respect to business intelligence and analytics. Most of the topics introduced herein cover new techniques and the applications of this field. Those in search of information to further their knowledge will be greatly assisted by this book.