What is MSBI?
MSBI stands for Microsoft Business Intelligence. This powerful suite is composed of tools which helps in providing best solutions for Business Intelligence and Data Mining Queries. This tool uses Visual studio along with SQL server. It empower users to gain access to accurate and up-to-date information for better decision making in an organization. It offers different tools for different processes which are required in Business Intelligence (BI) solutions.
Before knowing MSBI we will know what is BI?
What is BI?
Business intelligence is transformation of data. Within anorganization,data in any form, is analyzed, processed and represented to aid informed decision making. Business Intelligence is techniques for transforming data into information. This information helps to make quick decisions.
BI includes
- Data Cleaning –Eliminate junk or errors from raw data
It is the process of detecting and correcting (or removing) corrupt or inaccurate records from a record set, table, or database.
- Data modeling- Dimension or data warehousing
It is often the first step in database design and object-oriented programming as the designers first create a conceptual model of how data items relate to each other.
- Data transformation- Extract , transform and load data
It is the process of converting data or information from one format to another, usually from the format of a source system into the required format of a new destination system.
- Data representation- dashboard analytics etc.
It refers to the methods used internally to represent information stored in a computer
- Data Analysis- Cube , data mining , data statistics
It is a process of inspecting, cleaning, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information, suggesting conclusions, and supporting decision-making.- Industry is behind entire MSBI, so that they can stand out of competition.
– BI depends on industry to industry.
– BI is a technology
– MSBI is a tool
– BI ismore important to understand
Organizational BI
-In an organization how the BI plays an important role.
Any business retail, pharm data which is recorded is not always in same technology. It’s coming from warehouse, ecommerce in excel files ,some of the data in flat files or system generated files, Data In RDMS,tables, Data in ERP system in few organizations and end of the day u have to deal with all these data.
-Data cleaning, assess, read and getting data into staging area.
-Staging data is RDBMS, SQL.
-All the data across from various points stored in one particular place named data center.
-Extracting, gathering and loading data
Data warehouses/Data mart.
This is commonly used for reporting and business analysis purposes. The Data warehouse stores the current and historical data, so it is easy to generate trend reports, predictive analysis and comparison reports. A Data Mart means that it’s a small part of a Data Warehouse and indicates only a single part (for example sales or finance).