How Would You Describe BI In One Sentence?
We started a conversation on LinkedIn a couple of weeks ago and there has been a great response so far. We thought we’d share the results with you up until now.
We asked: How Would You Describe BI in One Sentence?
Some of the responses we liked were:
Business Intelligence is a reliable, analytical process that transforms raw data into relevant, accurate and useable strategic knowledge.
Get the right information to the right people at the right time.
Business Intelligence – the BI-process helps users make better business decisions through technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, providing access to and presenting data. [Gartner]
Helps you understand what happened and why, determine needed changes to plans, and communicate new initiatives and goals across the company.
Business Intelligence is a set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information used to enable more effective strategic, tactical, and operational insights and decision-making. [Forrester]
What’s your definition of BI? Post a comment on this article, or go to the Business Intelligence Professionals group on LinkedIn and join in the conversation over there 
