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What is business intelligence? Transforming data into business insights

CIO Business Intelligence

BI tools access and analyze data sets and present analytical findings in reports, summaries, dashboards, graphs, charts, and maps to provide users with detailed intelligence about the state of the business. Whereas BI studies historical data to guide business decision-making, business analytics is about looking forward.

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What Is Embedded Analytics?

Jet Global

Cloud Applications Included are Salesforce, Carbonite, Forcepoint, DigitalOcean, AWS, Dropbox, and Civis Analytics. OLAP cubes Used for multi-dimensional analysis Strategic Objective When a vendor-specific connector is not available, generic connectors provide flexibility with data. Ask your vendors for references.