Microsoft --Business Intelligence

What is BI?
Architecture of BI

Transformation Activities

Business Intelligence
BI is a process (set of activities) to run business smarter

way, i.e. collecting the data from various operational

sources,
(staging area) , combining and storing it in a
database or data warehouse.

And, this consolidated data should be reported, analyzed

and distributed to the right people in the required format

like PDF, Excel etc.

Business Intelligence Architecture Diagram

HR
Oracl
e 100

Admin
Excel
100

Stagin
g
Area

Databa
se (SQL
Server)
400
Report
Report

Facilitie
s MSAccess
200
Analysis

Transformation Activities
Data Merging
--Merging the business data which is from various
operational sources into single database or data
warehouse. Ex. Merge, Merge Join and Union All etc

Data Cleansing
--Process of Identifying invalid, inaccurate data and
modify it in correct format. Ex. Fuzzy Lookup, Fuzzy
group transformations, Sort and Aggregate (Group
by).

Contd..

MS-BI Architecture
Oracl
e
Staging
Area

Databas
e/DWH

Excel
SSRS
MSAcces
s

SA Activities :
1. Data Merging
2. Data Cleansing
3. Data
Aggregation
4. Data Scrubbing

SSIS (ETL)

Report
Report

Analysis

SSAS (Analysis)