Business Intelligence

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Definition

Business Intelligence. (BI) It is a broad category of the applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, retrieving, and providing access to data to help users make better decisions.

BI applications include the activities of decision support systems, querying and reporting, online analytical processing, Statistical Analysis, Forecasting and Data Mining. Analytics has generalized and extended business intelligence components.