Support the various analytical and reporting styles of the business executives that may include reporting, ad hoc querying, online analytical processing (OLAP), data mining, predictive analytics, data visualization and spreadsheet integration.
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Provide access to the level of comprehensive, consistent, clean and current data that the business needs for analysis – and is willing to pay for.
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Systematically implement and support data governance
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Separate data integration from BI reporting and analysis processes.
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Implement the staging of data from systems of record through a data warehouse to data marts or cubes
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Create a business-oriented “semantic layer” to give users a view of the information available for reporting and analytics.
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Create a “live” data and reporting dictionary that business users can use while accessing reports