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What’s the Difference Between Business Intelligence and Business Analytics?

Sisense

The sheer quantity and scope of data produced and stored by your company can make it incredibly hard to peer through the number-fog to pick out the details you need. This is where Business Analytics (BA) and Business Intelligence (BI) come in: both provide methods and tools for handling and making sense of the data at your disposal.

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What is business intelligence? Transforming data into business insights

CIO Business Intelligence

Business intelligence vs. business analytics Business analytics and BI serve similar purposes and are often used as interchangeable terms, but BI should be considered a subset of business analytics. Business analytics, on the other hand, is predictive (what’s going to happen in the future?)