Literature Review of Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence (BI) is a term that refers to the set of technologies, architectures, practices, applications and processes for the collection, integration, analysis, and presentation of business information that drives profitable business actions. BI is considered to have a significant impact on businesses. The primary purpose of the Business Intelligence is to enhance decision making capability. BI tools help us to perform data analysis and create summaries, dashboards, maps, graphs, charts and reports to provide users with detailed intelligence about the nature of the business. A critical part of BI systems is a properly performing implementation of the Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) process. In this paper, I will do the literature review that how Business Intelligence System helps in enhancing decision-making capability, readiness in meeting new business challenges, and identifying every hidden cost.