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ERP Internals/Glossary/Business Intelligence
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A broad term referring to the gathering, analyzing and formatting of enterprise data to facilitate better and faster decisions. BI is equivalent to the earlier term "decision support system". Although there is much overlap between Analytics and BI, BI is considered the more general, comprehensive term.