Business intelligence and data warehousing

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Table of Contents
Introduction to Business Analysis...............................................................................................................3
BI Analysis/ Dashboard Analysis................................................................................................................4
Used Business Tool – Power BI..................................................................................................................4
Reasons for the suggestions for business tool recommendations.................................................................6
Visualization................................................................................................................................................7
Assumptions..............................................................................................................................................13
Recommendations.....................................................................................................................................13
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................14
References.................................................................................................................................................15

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Introduction to Business Analysis
The business analysis tools are very crucial and efficient to present intelligence data in the form
of a map, graphs, dashboards, and reports as well as providing the current state of the
organization. The gathered data is transformed into actionable insights by Business Intelligence
it is viable for the businesses. These formed actionable insights are very useful for the executives
to have appropriate strategies, which would assist the executives to make accurate and useful
decisions. Business Intelligence is the inclusion of various tools which have offered various
types of features, these are as follow:

 Ranking reports help in viewing the worst and best-performing facets of the business.
 ‘What-If Analysis’ allows users to make better plans as well as gives the objective view
of rewards and risks involved in each potential decision.
 Location intelligence represents the transformed information in the form of the
cartographical and geographical view and also simplifies the geographical data.

This analysis helps the executives in presenting the anticipation and making the prediction
relevant to the future point of view. It is highly useful for presenting organizational new growth
along with this helps the businesses to gain a competitive advantage from the companies which
are relevant to the same sector. 

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BI Analysis/ Dashboard Analysis
BI dashboard is the tool of data visualization for displaying important data points for an
organization and tracked Key Performance Indicators, tracked by an organization for assessing
different aspects of performance. It is an information management tool and a tech-driven
approach used for visualizing and analyzing the information. Graphs and charts are consolidated
on a single screen by Business Intelligence Dashboard, where the situation’s big picture is
provided to the reader (Chen et al., 2012). This tool is helpful for the managers, executives, and
other corporate end-users of an organization to make informed based decisions. Reporting,
querying, analytical processing, and data mining are some steps of a technology-driven process,
Business Intelligence.

Acquiring information, database recording, and presentation are the three steps of the working of
Business Intelligence. Aiming the effects of ageing on infectious disease, the descriptive analysis
will be used for locating the required information (Ramakrishnan et al., 2012). In the context of
the infectious disease, relevant details are presented by the data set. The analysis will represent
the effects of different diseases such as Congenital Rubella Syndrome, Diphtheria disease, H5N1
Influenza and others on ageing population. This analysis is very descriptive and effective for
executives to make future strategies.

Used Business Tool – Power BI

Business intelligence represents the systems and tools that play a key role in the process of
strategic planning in an organization. In the area of inventory and distribution analysis, product
profitability, market segmentation, market research, customer support, and customer profiling
Business Intelligence will be illustrated by these systems. For making faster and accurate
decisions, Business Intelligence software is designed to extract crucial information from the raw
data of an organization (Chau & Xu, 2012). Turn information into insights, predictive analysis to
reveal patterns, text, and data mining, and statistics are some analytical features of Business
Intelligence software. This software integrates the data from the executives and provided to the
end-users with analysis and self-service reports. The overall created visualizations are in the
form of dashboards along with including every type of organization.

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Power BI is a Data Visualization and Business Intelligence tool used in the organizations for
converting data from various data sources into BI reports and interactive dashboards. Power BI
toll is presented in various versions like the mobile power BI app, Service-based (SaaS), and
Desktop (Ramakrishnan et al., 2012). Database on-premises, Databases in the Cloud, Power BI
Desktop (.pbi), Comma Separated Value (.csv), and Excel (.xlsx, .xlxm) are some data sources
for the Power BI tool.

The most prominent reasons for using Power BI tool are as follows:

 Offer features for dashboard visualization, which are updated with the community
 Using natural language query allows data exploration
 Offers secure environment, hybrid configuration, and quick development
 In the form on-premises and Cloud, reliable and secure connection for the data sources
are offered
 Allows real-time dashboard updates and for SaaS solutions reports and dashboards are
pre-built

The main key terms used in power BI

 Tile – the Box that contains each visual and founded on a rectangular dashboard or in a
report is tile.
 Reports – it is a single or multiple pages reports of visualization and this can be created
by the help of datasets, imported to a dashboard or created from scratch.  
 Dashboards – it is a collection of widgets and tiles, which could be zero or more in
numbers (Dai et al., 2010). Some subsets of underlying datasets are represented by
dashboards in a customized view.
 Datasets – the connected or imported part in the tool is a dataset. These can be explored,
removed, refreshed, and renamed.
 Visualization – one or more objectives are achieved by visualization in the form of a
visual display of information. It alerts the users on personal issues, performance issues,
operational issues, etc. the information is displayed in single-screen in visualization.

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Reasons for the suggestions for business tool recommendations
The significant benefits that can be gained by individuals form the suggested business tool. For
many purposes, the Business intelligence tool is used within the organization. Competitive
advantage, employee satisfaction, business decisions, and planning are underlined by Business
Intelligence solutions, these are as follows:

 The competitive advantages are gained by increasing revenue costs and reducing

expenses. The competitive advantages are enhanced by this method.
 This tool can provide employee satisfaction by making the task easiest and simpler to
achieve the task efficiently and effectively (Chen et al., 2012). The operational efficiency,
gained by employees, is the reason behind employee satisfaction.
 The data quality is improved by the supportive actions of Business Intelligence along
with this it also helps in conducting better business decisions.
 This tool helps provide planning, analysis, and reports faster to the executives. This tool
also inhibits the strategic planning, presents the detailed form of analysis, and supports
accurate reporting.

IT and Business Intelligence managers use these tools within the organization to deliver accurate
and faster data with the support of the report, analysis, and planning.

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Visualization
The existing trends in the infectious diseases are evaluated and represented by the figures. The
overall presented graphs and charts will help anticipate the data.

Figure 1 https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/30/6/931/433911

The Map chart is representing the data of chronic respiratory conditions of the whole world
concerning age-standardization, where the age is ranging from 30 to 70 and the chart is created
per 100000 population of the selected age range. The color of the dots is representing the year
that is 2008. The chart is indicating that Africa and Europe are majorly affected by this disease
while North America Australia and Asia are less impacted.

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Figure 2 http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=WHO&f=MEASURE_CODE%3aWHS3_55

This figure is all about Congenital Rubella Syndrome, where the chart is defining the
information of 20 countries where the cases of this disease are reported in different years from
2009 to 2012. The indication of 2012 is defining the major numbers of cases and the continuous
increment in the chart showing the increasing number of cases of this disease. In 2012, Viet Nam
was the country majorly impacted, recorded 12.94%, while in 2010 the most affected country
was also Viet Nam, and at that, it was 26.62%. However, in 2009 Djibouti was the name of are
where majorly the case of this disease was founded around 0.7%.

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Figure 3 http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=WHO&f=MEASURE_CODE%3aWHS3_41

This figure is indicating about Diphtheria disease, where two kinds of data are represented first is
in the form of value by years and the second one is in the form of value by country. The value by
year chart is indicating that most of the case of this disease was in 2011 near about 5,000, while
in 2009 the cases were less than and near about 1,000. However, the second chart indicating that
India was the country, which got impacted majorly by Diphtheria and after India the other
countries which are also impacted by this disease are Indonesia, Nepal, Iran, etc.

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Figure 4

This figure is about China, which was infected by H5N1 Influenza. The indicator is defining that
China had recovered the cases in 2011 but again in the next year, 2012, the number of cases
again increased from 1 to 2. The indicator is defining that only 2011 was the year in which the
cases were 1 otherwise same in before and after this year total cases of H5N1 influenza in china
are 5.

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Figure 5

This figure is also about the H5N1 influenza disease but this indicator is expressing the values of
various countries. China is the one country which has the lowest cases of this disease while
Egypt and Azerbaijan are the place and country where most of the cases were recorded in 2011
as well in other years too. In 2011 the numbers of the cases were the highest one 39 but later in
the next year, these were recovered and left with 11 in 2012.

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Figure 6 http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=WHO&f=MEASURE_CODE%3aTB_c_newinc

This figure is about new or relapse cases of Tuberculosis disease in China. The area-graph is
representing that the problem is since 1990 after the beginning of this disease the cases were not
increasing but after 5 years the cases were again boosted and crossed 0.5M cases. However, the
cases were majorly recorded between 2005 and 2010. These cases were around double, 1M,
since 1995, 0.5M. 

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Assumptions
The visualizations generated by the chosen dashboard are illustrative of diverse aspects and
accurate enough and also these are of the high importance of people with the interest in the data
that is being generated. The predictions are very helpful to analyses the effects of diseases on the
ageing population. It is also assumed that dashboard of the chosen datasets represents various
diseases and how much they have spread their wings in different parts of the world. The insights
presents are in professional forms and illustrative of the medical services. For anticipating
success, detailed information can be used by the dashboard.

Recommendations
Some of the recommendations are made for obtaining insights into the business to enhance the
business operations these are as follows:

 The numbers of the expenditures made in the context of Health organizations can help in
reducing the increasing number of diseases and their infected cases.
 Technological implementation in actual practice can help inconsistent supervising and
monitoring the actual reason behind increasing cases of diseases.
 Better medical services could be provided on the basis of visualization illustrated by the
business analytical data which is obtained from the dashboard.
 An adequate reporting can be helped by visualization, where the reporting forms the basis
for operations, and efficient to deal with the insights of the facts.

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Conclusion
It can be concluded that reporting is an efficient way to state the significance of Business
Intelligence, which is also efficient in presenting the visualizations in the context of diseases and
their cases. The illustration of the visualization enhances the ways of occurrence of disease while
adequate strategic planning supported the outputs produced by the dashboards and insights. Once
the outputs are produced the suggested measures were also illustrative of actionable conducts.

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