Traditionally, Business Intelligence (BI) has delivered simple and workmanlike information formats. The bread and butter of these are tables, pivot tables (crosstabs) and charts. Since the 1990s, these have been collected into portals & dashboards to provide an individualised “one-stop shop” for business information needs. For the more data adept, analytic capabilities have been added as part of the GUI experience.
While perfectly adapted to day-to-day activities, these approaches are usually in a separate environment to an information consumer’s main workspace.
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