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Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence terminology defined for finance and technology leaders across Egypt and the GCC.

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Business Intelligence What Is a BI Implementation Roadmap? A BI implementation roadmap is the phased, prioritised plan for building an enterprise BI capability, sequencing use cases, data sources, platform components… Business Business Intelligence What Is BI Platform Selection? BI platform selection is the structured evaluation and choice of the business intelligence tool that best fits an organisation's use cases, data… Business Business Intelligence What Is BI Return on Investment? BI return on investment measures the financial and operational value a business intelligence investment delivers against its total cost, including reduced manual… Business Business Intelligence What Is a Calculated Column? A calculated column is a column added to a BI model table by a formula that is evaluated row by row at… Technical Business Intelligence What Is a Data Catalogue? A data catalogue is a searchable, governed inventory of an organisation's data assets, including datasets, reports, metrics and sources, with definitions, owners,… Business Business Intelligence What Is a Data Lake? A data lake is a large-scale repository, usually cloud object storage such as Amazon S3 or Azure Data Lake Storage, that holds… Technical Business Intelligence What Is a Data Lakehouse? A data lakehouse is an architecture that combines low-cost data lake storage with warehouse capabilities such as ACID transactions, schema enforcement, time… Technical Business Intelligence What Is Data Literacy? Data literacy is the ability to read, interpret, question and communicate with data, understanding what a metric means, how it is calculated,… Business Business Intelligence What Is a Data Mart? A data mart is a subject-specific analytical data store, such as a finance, sales or HR mart, that holds the dimensional model… Technical Business Intelligence What Is Data Modelling? Data modelling in BI is the design of tables, relationships, hierarchies and measures that organise source data into structures BI tools can… Technical Business Intelligence What Is a Data Pipeline? A data pipeline is the automated, orchestrated sequence of steps that moves data from source systems through ingestion, transformation and validation to… Technical Business Intelligence What Is Data Quality Management? Data quality management is the programme of standards, ownership, measurement and corrective processes that keeps data feeding financial reports accurate, complete, consistent,… Business Business Intelligence What Is Data Refresh Architecture? Data refresh architecture is the design of schedules, triggers, dependencies, refresh methods and monitoring that keep BI datasets current, balancing freshness needs… Technical Business Intelligence What Is a Data Refresh Schedule? A data refresh schedule defines how often and when data behind a BI report is updated from source systems, such as daily,… Business Business Intelligence What Is Data Visualisation? Data visualisation is the graphical representation of data through charts, graphs, maps and structured tables so patterns, comparisons, trends and exceptions become… Business

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