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Concepts and Definitions
- What is business intelligence?
- What is data warehousing?
- What are data marts?
- What is data mining?
- What is ETL (Extract Transform Load) process?
- What is OLAP and how it is different from OLTP?
- BI & DW Glossary - what are some common BI & DW terminologies?
- What are web analytics?
Business Need
- What is the need for BI & DW technologies?
- Where are Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing being used today?
- What are business analytics and their benefits for the organization?
BI & DW Architectures
- What are data warehousing processes?
- What are components of business intelligence architecture?
- What is Bill Inmon's corporation information factory of data warehousing?
- What is Ralph Kimball's architecture to build data warehouse?
Trends & Futures
- What does the Gartner Group prediction say about future of BI(2015)?
- Gartner prediction - transition in BI industry
Cloud Computing
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