Business Intelligence (BI) systems are used to improve an enterprise's decision making by combining tools for gathering, storing, accessing, and analyzing business data. While traditional features for ...

The most serious business information problem companies face is finding a “single version of the truth.” Many companies are installing best-of-breed systems for order management, fulfillment, call ...

Business intelligence (BI) tools merge data from marketing, finance and sales into one system to produce reports based on real values from the company’s CRM and sales data (including data on returns ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Doretha Clemons, Ph.D., MBA, PMP, has been a ...

That leads us to a basic question on what constitutes a success or a failure in a BI system. There are two fundamental indicators of a successful BI implementation. First, is BI institutionalized in ...

LOS ANGELES — A recently implemented business intelligence project at Toyota Motors challenges a growing perception that IT organizations are no longer able to keep up with the BI demands of their ...