ABSTRACT
From the early stages of business intelligence, there have been ample lists of promises and visions of grandeur for what this type of solution can provide for decision makers. In the beginning this reference to decision makers may have been reserved exclusively for executives. That definition and categorization has now been forwarded for all levels of management and decision making and even further to include a broad capability to access and work with data to improve any decision-making process. This capability has been awaited by many practitioners in the hope that BI would be more widely accepted. Because of the new technologies that have come up through the years it has garnered a
lot of attention of late for practitioners as one of the functionalities that a business intelligence solution should offer and that vendors and practitioners should absolutely deliver.
