Data Mining Business Intelligence Applications

Data mining is an emerging technology that envisages pattern, process and various methods of accessing information in large databases, telecoms inclusive. Telecommunication companies are operating today in an extremely challenging business environment,(Joseph, 2013). This industry is in possession of large quantities of data, generated from numerous operational systems, and is confronted with many business problems that need urgent handling. Large Volume of knowledge is generated from various operational systems and these are used for determination of several business issues that needed imperative handling. This knowledge represents purposeful areas of maintenance, safety and quality processes, inventory, purchase, document management, transactions and security issues. Data processing strategies and business intelligence technology are widely used for handling the business issues in today trade and investment climate. Telecommunication has been among the first to adopt Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Mining technologies, a fundamental step to service invention and globalization.