ITM535 MOD2: Compare Business Intelligence And Knowledge Management
Compare Business Intelligence and knowledge management. Then, discuss their relationship to Big Data Analytics.
Module 2 - Background
Data Quality and Data Integration
Required Readings
Mailvaganam, Hari (2011). Introduction to metadata: Case study of an implementation in the insurance industry, http://www(dot)dwreview(dot)com/Articles/Metadata.html
Dyche, Jill (2011) The politics of data warehousing: http://www(dot)taborcommunications(dot)com/dsstar/00/0208/101300.html
Data Quality Quiz available at: http://searchcrm(dot)techtarget(dot)com/generic/0,295582,sid11_gci1049999,00.html
Informatica Data Quality and Data Integration: How to ensure business-focused data quality, enterprise wide (2006). https://marketplace(dot)informatica(dot)com/mpresources/docs/Informatica-dq-and-di.pdf
Pipino, L.L, Lee, Y. W., and Yang, R. Y. (2002). Data quality assessment, 45(4), 211- 218. http://web(dot)mit(dot)edu/tdqm/www/tdqmpub/PipinoLeeWangCACMApr02.pdf
Optional Readings
Hopkins WG (2000). Measures of reliability in sports medicine and science. Sports Medicine 30, 1-15. http://www(dot)sportsci(dot)org/resource/stats/precision.html
http://www(dot)baselinemag(dot)com/category2/0,1568,816619,00.asp A very full set of resources dealing with data integration. Their Integration Tools section is particularly rife with helpful items.
Business integration is about the integration of business processes and the underlying technologies on which they depend. Business Integration Journal covers the software solutions that enable the successful execution of business processes. These solutions have emerged from the convergence of many technologies: EAI, workflow, enterprise applications, collaborative tools, integration brokers, Web services, application servers, development tools, rules engines, and commerce offerings. We cover them all. In addition, our Website features all the latest breaking news in the market and arranges content intuitively by topic.
http://www(dot)bitpipe(dot)com/tlist/Data-Integration.html IT Information: White Papers, Product Literature, Webcasts and Case Studies
ITM535 MOD2 DISCUSSION
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ITM535 MOD2 DISCUSSION
Knowledge management has often been confused with business intelligence. Herschel (2008) says that business intelligence can be defined as a set of tools of technologies that are used in collection and analysis of data with an aim of improving decision making processes. In this regard, intelligence is basically the discovery and explanation of inherent, hidden, and decision-relevant contexts that are present in huge amounts of economic and business data (Herschel, 2008). On the other hand, knowledge management can be defined as a systematic process of selecting, finding, presenting, and distilling information in a manner that improves the comprehension of the employee in particular areas of interest. This implies that knowledge management enables a firm to attain insight as well as understanding from its own experience. Particular knowledge management activities enable an organization to focus on acquisition, storage, and utilization of know...