Overview of Business Intelligence
“A broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, sharing and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions”
-Gartner .
Why BI ?
- Performance management
- Identify trends
- Cash flow trend
- Fine-tune operations
- Sales pipeline analysis
- Future projections
- business Forecasting
- Decision Making Tools
- Convert data into information
How to Think ?
- What happened?
- What is happening?
- Why did it happen?
- What will happen?
- What do I want to happen?