Contemporary Business Intelligence and Its Main Components
TEC Analysts - June 13, 2006

Introduction

Economic and regulatory pressures, along with the need to stay competitive in the marketplace, have made business intelligence (BI) more important than ever for enterprise application users. BI gives users the ability to extract, consolidate, change, and analyze data in ways that are not possible in other approaches to enterprise applications. BI also allows users to exploit subsets of data within disparate organizational systems, such as customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), finance, and human resources (HR) to combine various dimensions of organizational data in order to create a single view...