Knowledge Analytics Terminology

It is helpful to familiarize with the BI objects to understand knowledge analytics.

This table contains important analytics terminology:

Term	Description
Analytics	Business intelligence objects, such as analyses and dashboards, that provide meaningful data to help with decision making.
Analysis	A selection of data displayed in one or more views, such as a table or chart, to provide answers to business questions.
Dashboard	A collection of analyses and other content, presented on one or more pages to help you achieve specific business goals
Report	An output of select data in a predefined format that is optimized for printing.
Subject Area	Subject areas are the organizational units in the BI repository that contain metadata that define which columns you can include in analyses. Each subject area has a fact folder and a number of dimension folders.