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Global Small BusinessSmall business has huge potential and opportunity for growth and development on Internet. Internet has wide scope to start a business either a small level or at a medium level. For example, with just computer and/or laptop and internet connection , anyone can kick start a gift basket at home, you can begin in a small way by investing a proportionate amount and hire one or two workers and begin to make gift baskets at home. For some with more venturous appetite, the business venture in wholesaler and B2B market has proven to be lucrative. Example would be expanding into B2B market by sourcing and providing clothes to worldwide users.

After certain period of time, you definitely wish to know the performance of your business and you require certain business intelligence tools which tell you about your performance in gift basket business.

Business Intelligence toolsBusiness Intelligence tools enable fast and quick service and in fact, these are the main sources of developing a business on Internet. Some of the important tools of BI are data mining tool, OLAP and data warehousing.

Due to the fact that these are technical terms and each Business Intelligence tool has a particular application and implementation method. Unless one is thorough in using a particular business intelligence tool methodically and systematically, one may not be in a position to derive good results from business.

For example, Microsoft Excel sheet is a powerful business intelligence tool which will store large amount of data in figures which may include sales, purchases, profits, expenses, revenues or any graphic representation of a particular business performance.

Performance ReviewCollection and analysis of data by the businesses was not possible until the onset of 20th century. In the year 1970, introduction of decision support systems took place which was able to analyze only a single department at a time. In the year 1980, introduction of executive information systems took place which could efficiently summarize the ongoing transaction within a business.

By the year 1990, computer technologies were introduced which led to an improvement in the Business Intelligence. Customer relationship management also went through an improvement and advanced techniques of management, along with new technology, improved the reporting, analysis and planning in businesses. These latest development led to an integrated methodology termed as Business Performance Management. Basically, it is a holistic approach towards strategic planning.

enterprise business intelligenceThe term Business Intelligence or BI is a wide category of technologies and application programs used for storing, gathering and analyzing data from different data sources, thus providing a company with timely and reliable information that they need.

Through this type of analysis of the current and updated data, an enterprise is able to improve its ability of decision making. Business Intelligence is a discipline which comprises of several related activities including data mining, decision support, reporting and querying, online analytical processing, forecasting and statistical analysis.

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