Produce financial and market intelligence by querying data repositories and generating periodic reports. Another tweeted that It’s important to have democratized access to the data and not have it locked up in silos but freely available to the lines of business that need it. And someone responded that there’s nothing wrong with centrally controlling data to ensure proper usage. Although traditional business intelligence systems were delivered via host terminals or paper reports, the typical modern deployment of a BI application is over the web, via Internet or intranet connections.
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