What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases to improve business performance and decision making?
• Define big data and describe the technologies for managing and analyzing it.
• List and describe the components of a contemporary business intelligence infrastructure.
• Describe the capabilities of online analytical processing (OLAP).
• Define data mining, describing how it differs from OLAP and the types of information it provides.
• Explain how text mining and Web mining differ from conventional data mining.
• Describe how users can access information from a company's internal databases through the Web.