Testing of Business Intelligence (BI) Applications

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  Business intelligence (BI)  Is a process of gathering, analyzing, and transforming raw data into accurate, efficient, and meaningful information which can be used to make wise business decisions and refine business strategy. As part of the BI process, organizations collect data from internal IT systems and external sources, prepare it for analysis, run queries against the data and create data visualizations, BI dashboards and reports to make the analytics results available to business users for operational decision-making and strategic planning.  Business Intelligence Testing (BI Testing)  initiatives help companies gain deeper and better insights so they can manage or make decisions based on hard facts or data. What is Business Intelligence Testing: Business Intelligence testing helps the business users to validate and verify the accuracy of these BI Reports and Dashboards and ensures data credibility and accuracy of insights derived from the BI process. Rep...
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How the Business Intelligence Process Works?

 How the Business Intelligence (BI) Process Works?

Here we will discuss how the business intelligence process works. Businesses and organizations have questions and goals. To answer these questions and track performance against these goals, they collect and analyze the necessary data and determine what steps need to be taken to reach their goal. On the technical side, raw data is collected from the operation of the business. Data is processed and stored in warehouses. Once it is stored, users can start the analysis process and access the data to answer business questions.

2.      Data sets are analyzed to analytics data for analysis.

3.      BI Analytics and other analytics professionals and business users ask analytical questions against data.

4.      Inquiry results are built into data visualizations, dashboards, reports and online portals. 

5.      Business executives and employees use information for decision making and strategic planning. 

 

How the Business Intelligence Process Works? Let us look at the different stages involved in the BI process.

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How the Business Intelligence Process Works?
  • Data Mining: Uses databases, statistics, and machine learning to track trends in large datasets.
  • Reporting: Sharing data analysis with stakeholders allows them to draw conclusions and make decisions.
  • Performance Measures and Benchmarking: Compares current performance data with historical data to track performance against targets using customized dashboards.
  • Descriptive Analytics: Preliminary data analysis is used to find out what happened.
  • Querying: Data asks specific questions, and BI pulls answers from datasets.
  • Statistical analysis: Take the results from the descriptive analytics and explore the data further using statistics such as how this trend occurred and why.
  • Data Visualization: Converts data analysis into visual representations such as charts, graphs, and histograms.
  • Visual analysis: Flies explore data through visual storytelling to communicate and stay in the stream of analysis.
  • Data Preparation: Compile multiple data sources, identify dimensions and dimensions, and prepare it for data analysis.

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