Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence (BI) is a broad category of applications and technologies that capture, store, and analyze data. To make informed business decisions based on accurate and up-to-date information, intuition is not enough. Data analysis, reporting, and querying tools can help business users handle large amounts of data and extract valuable information.
BI applications include decision support, query and reporting systems, online analytical processing (OLAP), statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining. Adaltas help you to leverage the tools and technologies at stake to extract the maximum value from your data.

BI planning
Defining and contributing to:
- Establish business requirements
- Plan and manage projects
- Select optimal online analytical processing (OLAP) tools
- Specify catalog and metadata strategy
Architecture & design
Involved and responsible for:
- Design dimensional data models and data marts
- Ensure compliance with security and governance policies
- Design data processing, cleaning, structuring and mining algorithms
- Design, secure and deploy platforms
Deployment & Optimization
Works together with the application developers:
- Implement analytical processing
- Implement KPIs, build reporting and statistical analysis systems
- Manage scalability and querying at scale
- Pre-aggregation data for deeper analysis
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