Business Intelligence Defined

Business Intelligence (BI) refers to technologies, applications and practices for the collection, integration, analysis and presentation of business information.

BI systems are data-driven Decision Support Systems (DSS) whose purpose is to help businesses make better business decisions. It leverages software systems and services to transform data into actionable insights that inform an organization’s strategic decision making.

Thorough historical, current and predictive views of business operations, BI tools are used to access and analyze data sets and present them as analytical findings.

A variety of different types of tools fall under the business intelligence umbrella. These tools include:

• Dashboards
• Visualizations
• Reporting
• Data mining
• ETL 
• OLAP (online analytical processing)

In Data Defined, we help make the complex world of data more accessible by explaining some of the most complex aspects of the field.

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