Business Intelligence - Business Intelligence and Business Analytics

Business Intelligence and Business Analytics

Thomas Davenport argues that business intelligence should be divided into querying, reporting, OLAP, an "alerts" tool, and business analytics. In this definition, business analytics is the subset of BI based on statistics, prediction, and optimization.

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