Business Intelligence  aims to support better business decision-making. BI uses technologies, processes, and applications to analyze mostly internal, structured data and business processes to support decision making.

There are two BI-perspectives:

• The technological perspective: is usually the role of ICT in the BI-process. Business Intelligence is based on the analysis of data and ICT executes the role of data collection, integration of data (the analysis how data can be transformed into intelligence) and distribution thereof in the organisation.
• The business perspective: the systematic process where, based on the strategy and the resulting information requirements, data is collected and analysed, resulting into knowledge and information. This knowledge and  information contributes to the execution of the Strategy.

Classical Business Intelligence is based on the creation of datawarehouses and cubes (Cognos) or universes (Business Objects). These cubes contain all reports that end users can possibly want. Every night these reports are recalculated, resulting in massive amounts of dat being calculated every night by company servers. This approach has a few downsides: only IT can create cubes or universes, forwarding of pre-calculated reports is a burden for every company network, end users remain dependent of IT for every new report,…

QlikView has broken with all these limitations by using innovative technologies that allow end users to create their own reports, without the creation of a datawarehouse. Read more about QlikView here…