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Business intelligence, biasa disebut BI adalah teknologi yang menggunakan komputer yang berguna untuk mencari, menggali, dan menganalisis informasi dari data bisnis misalnya hasil penjualan suatu produk atau pendapatan/pengeluaran salah satu anak perusahaan.

Arsitektur general dari sistem business intelligence terlampir pada gambar 1. Komponen-komponen saling berinteraksi untuk memfasilitasi fungsi dasar business intelligence: mengekstrak data dari sistem operasional perusahaan, menyimpan data yang sudah diekstrak kedalam datawarehouse, dan menarik data yang disimpan untuk berbagai aplikasi analisis bisnis.

To help with that, a growing number of organizations are replacing traditional waterfall development with Agile BI and data warehousing approaches that use Agile software development techniques to break up BI projects into small chunks and deliver new functionality to end users on an incremental and iterative basis.

As markets become increasingly competitive, competitive on the traditional business mix without a deeper understanding of customer wants, business operations and competitive dynamics can become overly expensive, time consuming and lead you in the wrong direction.