Business Intelligence Capability – Data Exploration

Overview of Data Exploration Solutions

Data Exploration Solutions enable robust visual searches of vast amounts of data and are commonly used by data analysts.

Data Exploration Solutions include sophisticated data discovery capabilities that enable users to rapidly and intuitively search through large amounts of data in order to gain insights.  Subsequently data exploration solutions enable users to quickly retrieve answers about organizational data and enable users to quickly generate information about the data.  In addition data exploration solutions provide informative search capabilities in order to enable analysis of the available data and enable conversion of the data into information.  While data exploration solutions do enable queries of data, the data is exposed to users using business terminology and underlying database structures and data models are hidden to the user.

Characteristics of Data Exploration Solutions

•  Rapid searches of large data sets

•  Sophisticated data discovery capabilities

•  Intuitive user interface with keyword searches

•  Filtering of data from multiple dimensions or perspectives

•  Drill-down, drill-up capabilities

•  Visualization of data in multiple formats

•  Integration with central databases and data warehouses

•  Guided discovery of data with contextual navigation

•  Abstraction of underlying database and data models

•  Conversion of data into information