Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence “Business intelligence (BI) consists of strategies, methodologies, and technologies used by enterprises for data analysis and management of business information.[1] Common functions of BI technologies include reporting, online analytical processing, analytics, dashboard development, data mining, process mining, complex event processing, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics.
BI applications use data gathered from a data warehouse (DW) or from a data mart, and the concepts of BI and DW combine as “BI/DW”[5] or as “BIDW”. A data warehouse contains a copy of analytical data that facilitates decision support.
The earliest known use of the term business intelligence is in Richard Millar Devens’ Cyclopædia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes (1865). Devens used the term to describe how the banker Sir Henry Furnese gained profit by receiving and acting upon information about his environment, prior to his competitors.”
IBM, https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/business-intelligence “Business intelligence (BI) is a set of technological processes for collecting, managing and analyzing organizational data to yield insights that inform business strategies and operations.”
Investopedia, https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/business-intelligence-bi.asp “Business intelligence (BI) is a technology-driven process that analyzes business data and transforms it into actionable insights, helping executives and managers make better-informed decisions.”
Microsoft, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/products/power-bi/topics/business-intelligence/what-is-business-intelligence “There are four keys steps that business intelligence follows to transform raw data into easy-to-digest insights for everyone in the organization to use. The first three—data collection, analysis, and visualization—set the stage for the final decision-making step. Before using BI, businesses had to do much of their analysis manually, but BI tools automate many of the processes and save companies time and effort.”
Google, https://cloud.google.com/learn/what-is-business-intelligence “Business intelligence (BI) is the process of using the power of people and technologies to collect and analyze data to be used by organizations in their strategic and daily decision-making processes.”
CIO, https://www.cio.com/article/272364/business-intelligence-definition-and-solutions.html “Business intelligence (BI) is a set of strategies and technologies enterprises use to analyze business information and transform it into actionable insights that inform strategic and tactical business decisions. 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.”