The corporate information factory is a concept system that is used to describe data-driven business intelligence and business management capabilities in business operations. Let us look at each part of the business information of the business capabilities.
Commercial Operation
Commercial operating systems are a system family (including management system, operating report system, and even external data), and corporate information plants inherit their characteristics from these systems. The commercial operation system is a core system that is running every day, and can be accessed through application interface, which plays the role of the main data source of the enterprise information plant.
The ability to capture appropriate data from the operating system is created a platform for the own value of the enterprise information plant. The success or failure of the enterprise information factory system has largely depends on the rich data provided by these operating systems, using these data to understand business conditions and provide historical records, and judge whether business is healthy.
Business Intelligence
Business intelligence consists of analyzing data as strategic decisions. Commercial intelligence is concerned in recent years because it has functions that have commercially sensitive responses, involving customers, products, business activities, employees, and more. This is the essence of intelligent business. Commercial intelligence components include data warehouses, data fairs, decision support interfaces, data acquisition, data output.
The data warehouse becomes an integrated data source, which is redesigned, providing a detailed snapshot of historical data. Data is as cleaned as possible, metadata descriptions in terms of data sources, transmission rules, calculations, etc.. Then, the data warehouse is used as a high quality data store, which is used to create a data market.
Data Market is an analytical engine in this environment, which is a subset of data warehouses, and converts data in the function of a particular department. Data comes from known demand sets, always aggregation and outline. An example of a key function of commercial intelligence is the value analysis of life cycle, customer classification, customer purchase habits, customer loyalty, inventory optimization analysis, these key competencable commercial management for all business operations
No performing effects from the results of business intelligence, then business intelligence is no value. Therefore, commercial management is required - the ability to use intelligence from the strategic decision system in tactical structure. Operating data storage and operational data fairs are the main components. Operating Data Storage is an integrated, clean, dynamic, and current data sets for tactical decisions. Business groups use online transaction interface types to access operational data storage. Operating Data Storage must be able to access anywhere from the organization and should not support any special operating applications. For example: Operating Data Storage Structure: The organizable customer database, the organizable product or inventory database.
Operating data fairs are a subset of operational data storage to do tactical multidimensional analysis. It has a limited traditional interface that may be rebuilt daily, usually temporary.
From China Business Intelligent Network http://www.chinabi.net Jiao Zhang compiled
