A business intelligence portal is a type of specialist documentation platform that provides interactive infographics, tables, and summaries, based on data produced by analytical systems, which are systems of facts. In turn, business intelligence portals may play the role of image sources, whenever their charts are extracted and embedded in documents.
Emblematic examples of business intelligence portals include:
On their own, business intelligence portals (if the enterprise’s business were solely about business intelligence, and information existed only in numerical form) are extremely principled DocOps platforms. They particularly excel at truth proximity; when a fact changes in the enterprise (say, when a product is sold), the changes are reflected some time later in the platform.
DocOps Automation
Most business intelligence platforms allow defining custom views which can be addressed using a uniform address. In this way, they can be connected to the main documentation platform in an effective manner. For example, the document view for, say, the scuba diving masks sales division, may be linked to the business intelligence platform’s dashboard that presents the latest sales figures for scuba diving masks.
For the purposes, of embedding and blending, pictures, tables, and summaries may also be extracted from business intelligence portal, for the inclusion on document views in the main documentation platform. The specific mechanism to achieve this will depend on the platform at hand.
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