Business Intelligence is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analysing, and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions.
BI applications include the activities of decision support systems, query and reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP), statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining.
Do you run your business intelligently?
CIA and KGB recognized the importance of intelligence gathering and analysis from the very early ages. Both of these superpowers spent enormous amounts of time, money and human effort to be better informed.
Often, a business that is operating wihout BI resembles Diagram 1. As you will see in Diagram 2, with better business intelligence & reporting, the organisation runs more smoothly and efficently.
Diagram 1: Before BI

Diagram 2: With BI
