Business intelligence should provide business decision-makers with the insight they need, but the definition is changing. The growth in data is making it harder to gain meaningful insight because they can only track data on a quarterly or yearly basis. Increasingly, business leaders want to make decisions faster and this is putting the IT department under more pressure at a time when they are being asked to do more with less.

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