Business Intelligence (BI) is that collection of technologies used to analyse data from different business systems in order to reveal meaningful insights about a company’s operations. Companies use BI to improve their decision-making, cut costs and identify new business opportunities. BI is more than just corporate reporting and more than a set of tools to coax recalcitrant data out of enterprise systems.

Top Trends in BI

   The business aspect of BI is the need to get the most value out of information. The IT aspect of BI — what technology is used to help provide the business need. This obviously does change over time — sometimes radically. The IT industry and the world at large have always been subject to technology and business trends, sometimes undergoing major changes, such as the development of the personal computer, client/server computing and the evolution of the Internet.

    Over the last....