Application Software Types
People working in business intelligence have developed tools that ease the work of business performance management, especially when the business-intelligence task involves gathering and analyzing large amounts of unstructured data.
Tool categories commonly used for business performance management include:
- OLAP — online analytical processing, sometimes simply called "analytics" (based on dimensional analysis and the so-called "hypercube" or "cube")
- scorecarding, dashboarding and data visualization
- data warehouses
- document warehouses
- text mining
- DM — data mining
- BPO — business performance optimization
- EPM — enterprise performance management
- EIS — executive information systems
- DSS — decision support systems
- MIS — management information systems
- SEMS — strategic enterprise management software
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