Category: (2) TAM Application Type
Application Identifier: 9.6.3(This Application ID has been deliberately unused!)
Maturity Level: 4
Business Intelligence (BI) refers to skills, technologies, applications and practices used to help a business acquire a better understanding of its commercial context. Business Intelligence may also refer to the collected information itself (from Wikipedia). Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing (BIDW) is the delivery of business information required to effectively manage corporate operations. It includes both tactical and strategic decision making activities, compliance and regulatory reporting, and operational & transactional management/monitoring. These functions are performed by a virtual team from various IT organizations within the enerprise.
BI technologies provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations. Common functions of Business Intelligence are (but not limited to):