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  2. Business intelligence - Wikipedia

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    According to Forrester Research, business intelligence is "a set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information used to enable more effective strategic, tactical, and operational insights and decision-making." [11] Under this definition, business intelligence ...

  3. Business analytics - Wikipedia

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    Business analytics ( BA) refers to the skills, technologies, and practices for iterative exploration and investigation of past business performance to gain insight and drive business planning. Business analytics focuses on developing new insights and understanding of business performance based on data and statistical methods.

  4. Data analysis - Wikipedia

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    Data analysis is the process of inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions, and supporting decision-making. [1] Data analysis has multiple facets and approaches, encompassing diverse techniques under a variety of names, and is used in different business, science ...

  5. Master data - Wikipedia

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    Master data represents "data about the business entities that provide context for business transactions". The most commonly found categories of master data are parties (individuals and organisations, and their roles, such as customers, suppliers, employees), products, financial structures (such as ledgers and cost centres) and locational concepts.

  6. Data management - Wikipedia

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    The concept of data management arose in the 1980s as technology moved from sequential processing (first punched cards, then magnetic tape) to random access storage.. Since it was now possible to store a discrete fact and quickly access it using random access disk technology, those suggesting that data management was more important than business process management used arguments such as "a ...

  7. Sharing sensitive information on apps carries risks, but data ...

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    InMarket has agreed to stop selling or licensing precise location data and to destroy data previously collected unless the consumer consents to its use or the data has been deidentified.

  8. Data - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In common usage, data ( / ˈdeɪtə /, also US: / ˈdætə /; ) is a collection of discrete or continuous values that convey information, describing the quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted formally. A datum is an individual value in a collection ...

  9. Sam Altman takes nuclear energy company Oklo public to help ...

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    Oklo’s business model is based on commercializing nuclear fission, the reaction that fuels all nuclear power plants. Instead of conventional reactors, the company aims to use mini nuclear ...