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ElegantJ BI Business Intelligence – Glossary of Terms and Definitions

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This glossary provides terms and definitions for your review. It will help you to understand the language and terminology of the Business Intelligence industry and to better understand the markets, industries and needs served by the BI solution vendors and service providers.

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Glossary

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Parameterised Report

A report that uses input values for processing. For example, allowing users to select from a pick list to show data by a particular product category or region. Parameters are typically used in a query that selects the data for the report.

Pareto Filtering

The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule) states that, for many events, 80% of the effects comes from 20% of the causes. This is a useful feature when a dimension, like customer, has a large number of categories and you want to identify the 20% of your clients who brings 80% of your sales. Filtering based on this principle, automatically groups the categories that amount to less than 20% of a row or column total into ‘other’ category.

Percentage of Total

Displaying data in a table as a percentage of that particular data’s total, using the percentage (%) of row and percentage( %) of column calculation. For example, user can summarize ‘Sales in different region’ as a percentage of ‘Total Sales.’

Personalization

Delivering appropriate content that is tailor-made for your end users’ needs.

Pivot Table

To ‘pivot’ is to ‘slice-and-dice’ your data to get different views of the same data. A pivot table usually refers to a tool that lets you look at your data in different ways to obtain a desired report. Specifically it allows you to reorganize and summarize selected columns and rows of data in your database tables without changing the data that is actually contained in the tables. Refer Slice and Dice for more information.

Portal

A web site that typically provides personalised capabilities to its visitors. A portal brings content from different sources together and can enable collaboration, information consumption, and other applications or functionality for end users.

Predictive Analysis

It is a powerful analytic engine, which encompasses various statistical and data mining techniques to make predictions/forecast about future business conditions. It helps people make proactive decisions more easily by providing insights via easy-to-use dashboards across the organisation.

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Dashboard

Our dashboards provide a customized snapshot of operations, and help the user identify problems and the source of those problems, and they provide valuable, up-to-date information about financial results, sales and other critical information – all in one place! Users can customize views and analyze information at the strategic, tactical and operational level.

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