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A repository is a central location in which data is stored and managed.

What is a forward integration?

One of the primary goals of a database is to eliminate information redundancy by recording each piece of data in only one place in the database. What does the elimination of information redundancy do for a database?

Infographics can present the results of large data analysis looking for patterns and relationships that monitor changes in variables over time.

Timely information asks if the information is current with respect to the business needs.

Advanced analytics focuses on forecasting future trends and producing insights using sophisticated quantitative methods, including statistics, descriptive and predictive data mining, simulation, and optimization.

Prediction is a statistical process that finds the way to make a design, system, or decision as effective as possible, for example, finding the values of controllable variables that determine maximal productivity or minimal waste.

Data governance is the practice of gathering data and ensuring that it is uniform, accurate, consistent, and complete, including such entities as customers, suppliers, products, sales, employees, and other critical entities that are commonly integrated across organizational systems.

Determining if all total columns equal the true total of the individual items is an example of a consistent characteristic of high-quality information.

A data warehouse is a logical collection of information, gathered from many different operational databases, that supports business analysis activities and decision-making tasks.