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Business intelligence (BI) refers to skills, technologies, applications and practices used to help a business acquire a better understanding of its commercial context. Business intelligence may also refer to the collected information itself. BI technologies provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations. Common functions of business intelligence technologies are reporting, OLAP, analytics, data mining, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining, and predictive analytics. Business intelligence often aims to support better business decision-making. Thus a BI system can be called a decision support system (DSS). HistoryIn a 1958 article, IBM researcher Hans Peter Luhn used the term business intelligence. He defined intelligence as: "the ability to apprehend the interrelationships of presented facts in such a way as to guide action towards a desired goal." In 1989 Howard Dresner (later a Gartner Group analyst) proposed BI as an umbrella term to describe "concepts and methods to improve business decision making by using fact-based support systems." It was not until the late 1990s that this usage was widespread. From Wikipedia under the
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Q. What is the future of Business Intelligence and Data warehousing and how would it benefit large businesses? Asked by Monarch - Mon Dec 3 05:15:54 2007 - - 6 Answers - 0 Comments A. Answer is very Simple as SAP. The final word in Business Intelligence and Datawarehousing. Answered by Mathews - Mon Dec 3 05:34:01 2007 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Business Intelligence"
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