Techniques, Process, and Enterprise Solutions of Business Intelligence

Business intelligence (BI) has been viewed as sets of powerful tools and approaches to improving business executive decision-making, business operations, and increasing the value of the enterprise. The technology categories of BI mainly encompass data warehousing, OLAP, and data mining. This article reviews the concept of Business Intelligence and provides a survey, from a comprehensive point of view, on the BI technical framework, process, and enterprise solutions. In addition, the conclusions point out the possible reasons for the difficulties of broad deployment of enterprise BI, and the proposals of constructing a better BI system.