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Anaplan is a web-based enterprise platform for business planning, budgeting and forecasting. Anaplan is also the name of the company that created the platform.

A business intelligence competency center (BICC) is a team of people that, in its most fully realized form, is responsible for managing all aspects of an organization's BI strategy, projects and systems. 

A business intelligence competency center (BICC) is a team of people that, in its most fully realized form, is responsible for managing all aspects of an organization's BI strategy, projects and systems. 

Big data is an evolving term that describes any voluminous amount of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data that has the potential to be mined for information. Although big data doesn't refer to any specific quantity, the term is often used when speaking about petabytes and exabytes of data. See also Big Data vs. Business Intelligence

Change data capture (CDC) is the process of capturing changes made at the data source and applying them throughout the enterprise. CDC minimizes the resources required for ETL (extract, transform, load) processes because it only deals with data changes. The goal of CDC is to ensure data synchronicity. 

Data latency, in a data warehouse context, is the time between the creation of data in a source system and the exact time at which the same data is available for end users on the business intelligence platform. 

A data mashup is the integration of heterogeneous digital data from multiple sources for business purposes. 

Data sampling is a statistical analysis technique used to select, manipulate and analyze a representative subset of data points in order to identify patterns and trends in the data set being examined as a whole. 

Cross tabulation (commonly known as crosstab) is a type of report comparing, or cross-referencing of two variables in order to determine how they are interrelated.

A view is the way of depicting information in a database. Some options of viewing your data are to arrange your data items in a specific order, re-label, hide or to pre-aggregate certain fields.