Business Intelligence existed for over twenty years. However, recent IT solutions have contributed to its democratization. Business Intelligence also known as BI is the set methods and tools, aimed at transmittin8g relevant data and informations to business manrs. the goal is to help thoses managers understand the environment of their structure so they can make strategic decisions.
The business Intelligence originally was like a privilege of the experts and the departments concerned could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Departements such as accounting and finance, logistics and trade…etc. However, the technology and the internet and the increase of the power of computer sience and data analysis have facilitated the dissemination of BI tools to users, in discreet and unique forms. Most businesses are therefore now using BI to consolidate and manipulate the information they have available.
The structure’s data collection is the basis on which Business Intelligence will certainly capitalize. After checking the format and the quality, thoses informations are stored in a repository, this repository is generally a centralized big server, called data warehouse or Datamart. This data can be distributed then to users according to the needs of every manager via a tool adapted to the specificities of each.
