DSS and MIS are also referred to as ________ systems.
A) business information
B) business intelligence
C) executive support
D) business model
E) expert
Q. 2The process of employing techniques to help a website achieve a higher ranking with the major search engines is called:
A) VPN.
B) IAB.
C) SEM.
D) SEO.
E) LED.
Q. 3NORA is:
A) a profiling technology used by the EU.
B) a federal privacy law protecting networked data.
C) a data analysis technology that finds hidden connections between data in disparate sources.
D) a sentencing guideline adopted in 1987 mandating stiff sentences on business executives.
E) an ethical principle.
Q. 4All of the following are analytic functionalities that BI systems deliver except:
A) ad hoc queries.
B) dashboards.
C) production reports.
D) drill-down ability.
E) user interface.
Q. 5Conformance means that:
A) data have been transformed.
B) data are stored, exchanged or presented in a format that is specified by its metadata.
C) data are stored in a way to expedite retrieval.
D) none of the above.
Q. 6Identify and describe some of the current trends in contemporary software platforms.
What will be an ideal response?