Business intelligence (BI) refers to skills, technologies, applications and practices used to help a business acquire a better understanding of its commercial context. Business intelligence may also refer to the collected information itself.

BI technologies provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations. Common functions of business intelligence technologies are reporting, OLAP, analytics, data mining, business performance management , and predictive analytics. Business intelligence often aims to support better business decision-making. Thus a BI system can be called a decision support system(DSS).

Business Intelligence creates high-performance Analysis Services solutions with improved cube designers, subspace computation, and MOLAP enabled write-back capabilities. It also Implements more and more responsive Reporting Services solutions through enhancements to on-demand processing and instance-based rendering. It especially builds flexible and effective reports with the new Tabular data structure and rich formatting capabilities and hence publishing these reports securely on large platform being internet in this case.

Use intuitive wizards & innovative tools for building integration, reporting & analytic solutions within a single environment.Realize increased developer productivity and design comprehensive BI solutions by using rich feature sets, and dynamic rows by using the new Tablix report design template that enables data presentation scenarios that have previously been difficult or impossible to build. Incorporate rich formatting in reports to increase usability. BI basically reduces management overheads by focusing on high-value tasks while spending less time on routine maintainance and tuning operations,by using the unified management tool to provide an integrated management experience across all SQL Server technologies for increased productivity,flexibility and manageability.