Business Intelligence

OVERVIEW
Business Intelligence, also known as "BI", is a term currently used to describe a discipline which captures and assesses various aspects of a company, its customers and competitors. This includes processes and software which assist in gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to intelligent information on a company's data in order to identify significant trends or patterns that ultimately facilitate the decision-making process and provide the company with a competitive advantage.

BI ideally serves as a unified presentation layer for data that originates in one or more data sources such as a transaction or ERP systems. Optimally, BI shares this data in a more intuitive manner that allows business users to easily comprehend the issues depicted by the figures - and to then take appropriate action.

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