Glossary

What is business intelligence?

Business intelligence refers to the systematic collection, integration, analysis and reporting of data from all areas of your business - from finance and sales to worker productivity - to drive better decision making.

What is data warehousing?

Data warehousing refers to building a system that can store large volumes of data from several sources, as a central repository from which all other systems can access the data efficiently.

What is remote support?

Remote support tools are IT tools and software that enable an IT technician or a support representative to connect to a remote computer from their consoles via the Internet and work directly on the remote system.

What are database improvements?

Database improvements can mean improving the design of the database, improving the performance of the database, and improving the security of the database.

What is database maintenance?

Database maintenance plans are a method of ensuring that a database is optimised and performing well. This helps businesses reduce downtime and data loss and ensure accurate and reliable data is available for modelling and insights.

What is data visualisation?

Data visualization is the graphic representation of data. It involves producing images that communicate relationships among the represented data to viewers of the images. Data visualisation empowers all of the teams in your organisation to make data-driven decisions and act on insights from your data.

What is AI product development?

AI product development is the development of an AI solution - either from scratch or building upon an AI solution that is used internally - that can be made available externally as a marketable product.

What is AI integration into applications?

AI systems such as natural language processing and machine learning algorithms can be integrated into existing applications to add functionality and improve their performance over time. Examples of AI features that can be integrated into applications are facial recognition image processing, speech processing and personalised content.

What is Azure Batch?

Azure Batch is a service that manages the workload of applications. It is designed to take the workload that is greater than the capability of your application, and divide it between a number of nodes - virtual machines (VMs) - that can each run your application and perform different parts of the workload in parallel.

What is Azure Data Factory?

Azure Data Factory is a cloud-based data integration service. It does not store data itself, but allows you to create and monitor automated workflows that collect, integrate, and (to some extent) transform large volumes of data from disparate sources, and pass them on to other services that can store, transform, analyse and use the data.