What is meant by Business Intelligence

What is Business Intelligence?
Business intelligence is a broad set of applications, technologies and knowledge for gathering and analyzing data for the purpose of helping users make better business decisions.
The main challenge of Business Intelligence is to gather and serve organized information regarding all relevant factors that drive the business and enable end-users to access that knowledge easily and efficiently and in effect maximize the success of an organization.

Business intelligence produces analysis and provides in depth knowledge about performance indicators such as company's customers, competitors, business counterparts, economic environment and internal operations to help making effective and good quality business decisions.

From a technical standpoint, the most important areas that Business Intelligence covers are:

DW - Data warehouses - architecture, design, managing, processing and loading (including the ETL process)
Data cleansing and data quality management
Data mining, statistical analysis, forecasting
OLAP - Online Analytical Processing and multidimensional analysis
MIS - Management Information Systems
Reporting - Information visualization and Dashboards
CRM - Customer Relationship Management
DSS - Decision Support Systems

Etl Tools Info portal
ETL-Tools.Info portal provides information about different business intelligence tools and datawarehousing solutions, with a main focus on ETL process and tools. On our pages you will find overview and general, high-level information on various Business Intelligence applications and architectures, as well as technical documents, with a detailed and low-level description of the solutions.
A great attention is paid to the Datastage ETL tool and on the portal you will find a number of Datastage examples, Datastage tutorials, best practices and resolved problems with many real-life examples.
There's also a wide range of information on a rapidly growing Open Source Business Intelligence market (OSBI), with emphasis on applications from the Pentaho BI family with a Pentaho tutorial.
Recently we also added a new section - the SAS Guide with tutorial, which illustrates the vision of SAS on Business Intelligence.