Business intelligence and data analytics involve analyzing data to extract useful information for making informed decisions. BI technologies provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations through functions like reporting, OLAP, data mining, and benchmarking. BI architecture organizes data, information management, and technology components to build BI systems, while frameworks provide standards and best practices. Challenges include continuous availability, data security, cost, increasing user numbers, new data sources and areas like operational BI, and performance and scalability. Leading vendors provide solutions like Google, Microsoft, Oracle, SAS, SAP, IBM, EMC, HP, and Teradata.
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