List of All Articles with the Topic "Business Intelligence"

Business Intelligence (BI) is a term covering the analysis of business information to tease out trends and support business decision making. Similar topics are Management Information (MI) and Operational Information (OI). Older terms include Descision Support Systems (DSS) and Management Support Systems (MSS).
Business Intelligence is generally supported by analytical software often in the form of add-on’s to existing data management tools. Many commercial software vendors provide such tools including Microsoft, IBM and Oracle.
Another term often associated with BI is “Online Analytical Processing” (OLAP). OLAP software is often characterised by presentation of data in a multi-dimensional format.
This topic will contain articles related to analytical processing.