Business Intelligence describes a set of processes, technologies, and practices for gathering, storing, analyzing, and interpreting raw data from internal and external sources to convert it into meaningful information that organizations can use to make more tactical and strategic decisions. Business intelligence tools are a suite of software and services used to process (access and analyze) data sets and present the resulting analytical findings. This typically in the form of reports, comprehensive summaries, and visuals (dashboards, graphs, charts, and maps). The objective is to provide users with detailed, self-explanatory intelligence about the state of the business, like a cockpit in a plane.
