Business Intelligence (BI)
Software for turning raw business data into dashboards, reports, and ad-hoc queries that non-engineers can use to make decisions — the visualization/reporting layer on top of a data warehouse.
BI tools connect to a company's data warehouse or product-analytics event stream and let analysts and non-technical stakeholders build dashboards, run ad-hoc queries, and set up alerting, without writing SQL for every question. A growing differentiator in this category is a natural-language query layer (ask a question in plain English, get a chart back) and whether an agent can query the underlying semantic model programmatically rather than only through the dashboard UI. Pricing is typically per-seat for editors with a cheaper or free viewer tier, and self-hosted/open-source options exist alongside fully managed ones.
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