ABSTRACT
Business Intelligence (BI) enables enterprises to access current, correct, consistent, and complete information on any process or transaction in order to take informed decisions in compliance with its strategy, policy, and procedures.Other than the concept and technologies of BI, the chapter introduces the novel concept of decision patterns that consolidate based on on-going operations and transactions, and then expedite the efficacy of decisions. A BI ecosystem consists of data warehouse management tools, Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL), data integration, and BI tools. The main BI activities include query, reporting, Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), statistical analysis, forecasting, data mining, and decision support.
