Business performance management

•  Data warehouse

  A data warehouse is a repository of an organization's electronically stored data. Data warehouses are designed to facilitate reporting and analysis . This definition of the data warehouse focuses on data storage. However, the means to retrieve and analyze data, to extract, transform and load data, and to manage the data dictionary are also considered essential components of a data warehousing system. Many references to data warehousing use this broader context.

  

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•  Business intelligence

  Business Intelligence (BI) refers to skills, processes, technologies, applications and practices used to support decision making. BI technologies provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations. Common functions of Business Intelligence technologies are reporting, online analytical processing, analytics, data mining, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining, and predictive analytics.

  

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•  Focus group

  A focus group is a form of qualitative research in which a group of people are asked about their perceptions, opinions, beliefs and attitudes towards a product, service, concept, advertisement, idea, or packaging. Questions are asked in an interactive group setting where participants are free to talk with other group members. The first focus groups were created at the Bureau of Applied Social Research by associate director, sociologist Robert K. Merton.

  

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•  Competitor analysis

  Competitor analysis in marketing and strategic management is an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and potential competitors. This analysis provides both an offensive and defensive strategic context through which to identify opportunities and threats. Competitor profiling coalesces all of the relevant sources of competitor analysis into one framework in the support of efficient and effective strategy formulation, implementation, monitoring and adjustment.

  

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•  Industry or market research

  

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•  Ecological model of competition

  File:Merge-arrows. svg It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Business ecology and Business ecosystem. The ecological model of competition is a reassessment of the nature of competition in the economy. Traditional economics models the economy on the principles of physics (force, equilibrium, inertia, momentum, and linear relationships). This can be seen in the economics lexicon : terms like labour force, market equilibrium, capital flows, and price elasticity.

  

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•  Qualitative marketing research

  Qualitative marketing research is a set of research techniques, used in marketing and the social sciences, in which data is obtained from a relatively small group of respondents and not analyzed with inferential statistics. This differentiates it from quantitative analyzed for statistical significance.

  

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•  Quantitative marketing research

  Quantitative marketing research is the application of quantitative research techniques to the field of marketing. It has roots in both the positivist view of the world, and the modern marketing viewpoint that marketing is an interactive process in which both the buyer and seller reach a satisfying agreement on the "four Ps" of marketing: Product, Price, Place (location) and Promotion. As a social research method, it typically involves the construction of questionnaires and scales.

  

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•  SWOT analysis

  SWOT analysis is a strategic planning method used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture. It involves specifying the objective of the business venture or project and identifying the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieving that objective.

  

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•  Cognos

  Cognos (Cognos Incorporated) was an Ottawa, Ontario-based company making business intelligence (BI) and performance management software. Founded in 1969, at its peak Cognos employed almost 3,500 people and served more than 23,000 customers in over 135 countries. Originally known as Quasar it adopted the Cognos name in 1982. On January 31, 2008, Cognos was officially acquired by IBM.

  

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•  Round church

  A round church is a special type of church construction, having a completely circular plan. Round churches are often found in Sweden and Denmark (notably the island Bornholm) and were popular church constructions in Scandinavia in the 11th and early 12th centuries. Bjernede Kirke (1170) is also a very fine round church near Sorø on the island of Sealand. An example of a Swedish round church is Hedvig Eleonora Church in Stockholm.

  

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•  George Lopez (character)

  George Edward Lopez, played by the comedian of the same name, is the central character of the show George Lopez.

  

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•  Malibu Boats

  Malibu, which is headquartered in Merced, California, is a United States manufacturer of recreational boats, founded in 1982. Malibu is notable as a major manufacturer of water sports boats, used in water skiing and wakeboarding tournaments.

  

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•  Schrödinger wave equation

  

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