Description based on print version record.

"Getting onboard with emerging IT"--Cover.

"Foreword by Ronald J. Powell"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Business intelligence and information exploitation -- The value of business intelligence -- Planning for success -- The business intelligence environment -- Business models and information flow -- Data warehouses, online analytical processing, and metadata -- Business rules -- Data profiling -- Data quality and information compliance -- Information integration -- The value of parallelism -- Alternate information contexts -- Data enhancement -- Knowledge discovery and data mining -- Using publicly available data -- Quick reference guide.