What is BI and how can it improve performance?

Making Analysis tools available to relevant user types

Some users like to have an online version of their data, some prefer to get updates by email, some prefer to have excel spreadsheets with pivot tables made available to them, some users like to get updates by phone, some users only want to get warnings when something goes wrong.

Some companies do not want all of their users to see all of their data. Some companies do not want any of their data to be made available outside of their premises. Some companies have intranets on which they wish to present their data, some companies want to build a new intranet to present the data..