A set of technologies, tools, and practices for collecting, integrating, analyzing, and presenting business data to support better decision-making. Like having a dashboard in your car that shows speed, fuel level, and engine health at a glance, BI platforms transform raw data into meaningful visualizations, reports, and insights. AWS offers QuickSight, Azure provides Power BI, GCP has Looker, and OCI offers Analytics Cloud — each providing interactive dashboards, data exploration, and reporting capabilities.
A retail chain connects their sales database to Amazon QuickSight, creating real-time dashboards that show revenue by region, product performance, and customer trends. Store managers use these dashboards to make data-driven decisions about inventory and staffing.
Each cloud provider offers managed BI platforms with interactive dashboards, data exploration, embedded analytics, and AI-powered insights.