The unprecedented success of Business Intelligence (BI) and data warehousing can be attributed to major players in the market such as Microsoft, IBM and Oracle. The rapid advancement of the tools and technology is benefiting businesses like never before. The economic down-slide notwithstanding, BI is providing businesses the right thrust to sustain in the market and help make intelligent decision. BI applications include decision support systems, reporting and query, online analytical processing (OLAP), forecasting, statistical analysis and data mining. BI ensures better business decisions backed by efficient storage, analysis and execution of data. Testing a BI application is surely a daunting task and black box testing might not be enough.
SAS is capable of performing data entry and retrieval, creating reports and graphics design, mathematical and statistical analysis, operations research, project management, business forecasting, decision support and applications development.
SAS is considered the leader in business analytics and is able to provide the best solution to numerous complexities in business and emerge the winner. The end to end solution by SAS is absolutely fine however applications need to undergo performance testing to ensure well-organized representation of the data. BI application testing enables data verification, parametrization and correlation of data.
Business intelligence applications are frequently customized as per data model and business requirements of an organization. IBM’s Cognos, the Business Intelligence (BI) software can even be used by non-technical business users to work with corporate data, analyze them and prepare reports. The open standard Cognos can be used with multiple vendors and their data sources such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and others. Cognos can even be accessed from smartphones and tablets. There is also the Cognos Express, available for the small and medium enterprise.Performance requirement is imperative for any BI application and SAS and Cognos is no exception. eggPlant, the automated test tool designed by Testplant with wide variety of test frameworks bring the right solution for Business Intelligence applications. eggPlant test automation script is now extended beyond SenseTalk to assist QA professionals automate test in other scripting languages as well such as Perl, Java and Visual Basic. The objective of the test tool is to make the system organized by highlighting flaws such as poor URLs and web pages and allow necessary alterations before the system is actually live.
