School of Business
Department of Management Information Systems
BMIS300 – Management Information Systems
Chapter 6 – Part 4
Foundations of Business Intelligence:
Databases and Information Management
Fall 2020 - 2021
BMIS300 - Chapter 6
, 3.4 Data Mining
• Traditional database queries answer straight
forward, traditional questions.
• OLAP, or multi dimensional analysis, support
more complex requests for information.
• With OLAP and queries, users need to have a
good idea about the information for which they
are looking.
• Data mining is more discovery driven. It provides
insights into corporate data
Department of Management Information Systems
BMIS300 – Management Information Systems
Chapter 6 – Part 4
Foundations of Business Intelligence:
Databases and Information Management
Fall 2020 - 2021
BMIS300 - Chapter 6
, 3.4 Data Mining
• Traditional database queries answer straight
forward, traditional questions.
• OLAP, or multi dimensional analysis, support
more complex requests for information.
• With OLAP and queries, users need to have a
good idea about the information for which they
are looking.
• Data mining is more discovery driven. It provides
insights into corporate data
