Question

Explain how business intelligence differs from each of the following: (a) data ware¬ housing, (b) data mining, and (c) decision support systems.

Answer 1

(a): Data warehousing:

Data Warehouse	Business Intelligence
It makes available data efficient for BI to analyse from variouys sources.	It does the analysis of data taken from data warehouse.
It is the back end service.	It is the front end service.
It is used by BI as a data storage system.	Its goal is to make better business decisions.

(b) Data Mining:

Data Mining	Business Intelligence
It is basically a data science used for analysing data patterns from large datasets.	Other than storing its aim is to also make discern of the data.
Cleansing and integration of data is involved.	Analysation of data is involved.
Uses various visualizatons to represent information interestinglyy.	Presents the data in an organised understandable way.

(c) Decision Support Systems: There are tools used by BI that are also considered to be DSS tools but still there are some differences between them depending upon their use, objective and consruct.

Decision Support Systems	Business Intelligence
DSS are made to directly support particular decisive and directives.	BI has an indirect approach to the same.
It is inclined and aimed towards analysis.	Execution is the intention here.
It is old and no longer commonly used today.	It covers a wide range of technologies.