Business Intelligence - What is it?

posted by  jhorra (5)  10 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

In the world of management speak it is common practice to re-brand an essentially old idea with a new name. Many years ago we had EIS (executive information systems), decision support systems  and MI (management information) systems.  I am sure there are experts out there who will post me precise definitions of these and be able to define the differences, but today this kind of solution is generally referred to as Business Intelligence (BI).  What BI does is to make sense of the various types of structured data in a company and present this to the business