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Testing of Business Intelligence (BI) Applications

July 05, 2021

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...

Business Intelligence (BI) Data Pipeline

July 04, 2021

Business Intelligence Data Pipeline We must ensure the reports are delivered correctly. But Business Intelligence report is just the final output of a very long data pipeline. So, if the report is wrong, it is not necessary that the defect is in the report; the root cause of the defect might be somewhere along with the breadth of the data pipeline. The Business Intelligence Data Pipeline can be divided into two distinct stages: Part A: Data Processing & Storage a. Source data b. ETL c. Database/Data warehouse Part B: BI Testing a. Data Layer b. Reports c. Dashboards BI System Testing process has 3 stages: Data Layer: Data Layer or Metadata Layer is about data. It describes where data is being used and stored, the source of data, and how one piece of data relates to information. It includes description of data structure (schema, dimensions and hierarchies) and definitions of conform...

Top 5 Business Intelligence (BI) Tools

July 03, 2021

Business Intelligence (BI) Tools We discuss the top 5 BI tools available in the market today. BI tools are software types used to create functional business statistics, generate interactive reports, simplify decision-making processes, and collect, process, analyze, and visualize large amounts of old, current, and future data. These tools include key features such as data visualization, visual analytics, interactive dashboards, and KPI scorecards. In addition, they enable users to use automated reporting and predictive analytics features based on self-service. Business Intelligence (BI) Tools Tableau: Tableau is a powerful and fastest growing data visualization tool used in the Business Intelligence Industry. Power BI: Power BI is a new cloud-based Business Intelligence service provided by Microsoft and derived from its years of experience in relational databases like Access, SQL server etc. It is a business intelligence platform that allows ...