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Economic Intelligence:
The Economic Intelligence Council is the apex forum overseeing government agencies responsible for economic intelligence and combating economic offences. The Council is also the apex of 18 regional economic intelligence committees, and is part of the Union Ministry of Finance. It was formed in 1990.

Business intelligence (BI) mainly refers to

computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes.

Make more informed business decisions: Competitive and location analysis Customer behavior analysis Targeted marketing and sales strategies Business scenarios and forecasting Business service management Business planning and operation optimization Financial management and compliance

Database systems and database integration Data warehousing, data stores and data marts Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems Query and report writing technologies Data mining and analytics tools Decision support systems Customer relation management software Product lifecycle and supply chain management systems

Basics of data warehousing design and management Data warehouse architectures Data marts and data stores Data structures and data flow Dimensional modeling Extract, clean, conform and deliver Server management tools to package, backup and restore Database server activity monitoring and performance optimization

Data mining: the extraction of predictive information from large databases. Data trend, connection and behavior pattern analysis Data quality Data mining tools Predictive and business analytics Descriptive and decision models Statistical techniques and algorithms

Data representations Information graphics Data representation techniques and tools Visual representation trends and best practices Interactivity in data representation Tools and applications The user perspective on information presentation

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modernapproaches/

Success factors of implementation

Before implementing a BI solution, it is worth taking different factors into consideration before proceeding. According to Kimball et al. These are the three critical areas that you need to assess within your organization before getting ready to do a BI project. The level of commitment and sponsorship of the project from senior management The level of business need for creating a BI implementation The amount and quality of business data available.

BI careers cross over all industries: BI solution architects and integration specialists Business and BI analysts BI application developers and testers Data warehouse specialists Database analysts, developers and testers Database support specialists