Business intelligence (BI), visual data discovery, and business analytics solutions continue to evolve toward enabling nontechnical users to interact in more ways with more types of data.

More than two decades ago, BI started as a package intended for querying and reporting; then, as solutions added online analytical processing (OLAP) features, data visualization, and mobile functionality, pressure grew to make these complex solutions easier to use.

Source: tdwi.org
Author: David Stodder