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What is Business Intelligence? Definition

Business Intelligence (BI) aims at making better business decisions through the use of a broad category of Management Information Systems, applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data. BI uses timely and accurate information to make decisions.

Typical BI activities

Typically, BI activities include decision support, query and reporting, online analytical processing, statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining. BI represents those systems that help companies understand what makes the corporation successful, and to help predict the future impact of current decisions. These systems play a key role in strategic planning process of the corporation.

Typical Business Intelligence Applications

Typical BI systems are: customer profiling, market basket analysis, anti money laundering, anti fraud, customer contact analysis, market segmentation, credit scoring, product profitability, inventory movement as well as certain risk related applications.

Business Intelligence software

BI software provides better steering information to managers, enabling them to make better business decisions, ultimately leading to increased shareholder and stakeholder value creation. BI systems play a key role in strategic planning process of the corporation.

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Discussions about Business Intelligence.

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	Evaluation of Business Intelligence Systems. Metrics I am looking for metrics to evaluate BI systems. Someone has a clue? Is there a standard available f (...)

	Sense Making in Decision Making Support Hi, I'm currently writing my master’s thesis. It's title is: "Sense Making in Decision Making Suppor (...)

	Setting up a BI Unit What are the steps required to create a Business Intelligence section in my department to facilitate (...)

	Combining GIS and BI Sometimes we can combine a GIS with BI to provide a better way to make a decision. (...)

	Business Intelligence Quotes Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted - Sun Tzu, 4th century B.C. (...)

	Self-servicing Business Intelligence Bill Hostmann from Gartner Research in a SAS magazine expects that information will be increasingly (...)

	Business and Strategic Intelligence Is strategic intelligence the same concept as that of business intelligence? The only difference I p (...)

Best Practices - Business Intelligence

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Expert Tips - Business Intelligence

Here you will find advices by experts.

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Resources - Business Intelligence

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