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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299241503321

Autore

Grossmann Wilfried

Titolo

Fundamentals of Business Intelligence [[electronic resource] /] / by Wilfried Grossmann, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-662-46531-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVIII, 348 p. 116 illus., 81 illus. in color.)

Collana

Data-Centric Systems and Applications, , 2197-9723

Disciplina

658.472

Soggetti

Data mining

Management information systems

Application software

Industrial management

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Business Information Systems

Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)

Business Process Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Introduction -- 2 Modeling in Business Intelligence -- 3 Data Provisioning -- 4 Data Description and Visualization -- 5 Data Mining for Cross-Sectional Data -- 6 Data Mining for Temporal Data -- 7 Process Analysis -- 8 Analysis of Multiple Business Perspectives -- 9 Summary -- A Survey on Business Intelligence Tools.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a comprehensive and systematic introduction to transforming process-oriented data into information about the underlying business process, which is essential for all kinds of decision-making. To that end, the authors develop step-by-step models and analytical tools for obtaining high-quality data structured in such a way that complex analytical tools can be applied. The main emphasis is on process mining and data mining techniques, and the combination of these methods for process-oriented data. After a general introduction to the business intelligence (BI) process and its



constituent tasks in chapter 1, chapter 2 discusses different approaches to modeling in BI applications. Chapter 3 is an overview and provides details of data provisioning, including a section on big data. Chapter 4 tackles data description, visualization, and reporting. Chapter 5 introduces data mining techniques for cross-sectional data. Different techniques for the analysis of temporal data are then detailed in Chapter 6. Subsequently, chapter 7 explains techniques for the analysis of process data, followed by the introduction of analysis techniques for multiple BI perspectives in chapter 8. The book closes with a summary and discussion in chapter 9. Throughout the book, (mostly open source) tools are recommended, described, and applied; a more detailed survey on tools can be found in the appendix, and a detailed code for the solutions together with instructions on how to install the software used can be found on the accompanying website. Also, all concepts presented are illustrated and selected examples and exercises are provided. The book is suitable for graduate students in computer science, and the dedicated website with examples and solutions makes the book ideal as a textbook for a first course in business intelligence in computer science or business information systems. Additionally, practitioners and industrial developers who are interested in the concepts behind business intelligence will benefit from the clear explanations and many examples.