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Technics Publications LLC Business unIntelligence by Dr Barry Devlin
Business intelligence (BI) used to be so simplein theory anyway. Integrate and copy data from your transactional systems into a specialized relational database apply BI reporting and query tools and add business users. Job done. No longer. Analytics big data and an array of diverse technologies have changed everything. More importantly business is insisting on ever more value ever faster from information and from IT in general. An emerging biztech ecosystem demands that business and IT work together.Business unIntelligence reflects the new reality that in todays socially complex and rapidly changing world business decisions must be based on a combination of rational and intuitive thinking. Integrating cues from diverse information sources and tacit knowledge decision makers create unique meaning to innovate heuristically at the speed of thought. This book provides a wealth of new models that business and IT can use together to design support systems for tomorrows successful organizations.Dr. Barry Devlin one of the earliest proponents of data warehousing goes back to basics to explore how the modern trinity of information process and people must be reinvented and restructured to deliver the value insight and innovation required by modern businesses. From here he develops a series of novel architectural models that provide a new foundation for holistic information use across the entire business. From discovery to analysis and from decision making to action taking he defines a fully integrated closedloop business environment. Covering every aspect of business analytics big data collaborative working and more this book takes over where BI ends to deliver the definitive framework for information use in the coming years.show more