What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases to improve business performance and decision making?
• Define big data and describe the technologies for managing and analyzing big data.
• List and describe the components of a contemporary business intelligence infrastructure.
• Describe the capabilities of online analytical processing (OLAP).
• Define data mining, describe what types of information can be obtained from it, and explain how it differs from OLAP.
• Explain how text mining and web mining differ from conventional data mining.
• Explain how users can access information from a company's internal databases through the web.