Business intelligence life cycle

Figure 10.2. Major components in the business intelligence life cycle

Less Frequent Change/Higher Risk and Cost	Periodic Change	Frequent Change/Lower Risk and Cost
Hardware	Physical tables	Business views
Software	Custom-coded applications	Reports
Source systems	ETL processes	Dashboards
	Code files and hierarchy definitions	Calculation of key performance indicators within the business view, scorecard, or dashboard
	OLAP database structure