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What is Business Intelligence? Definition and explanations

Business Intelligence covers the tools and practices that turn an organisation's data into dashboards and reports that support decisions. It collects from operational systems, consolidates into a warehouse, models shared indicators and renders them visually. It answers "what happened, and where"; prediction belongs to other methods.

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Business Intelligence turns company data into dashboards that support decisions.

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