Business intelligence (BI) is the ability of an organization to collect, maintain, and organize knowledge. This produces large amounts of information that can help develop new opportunities. Identifying these opportunities, and implementing an effective strategy, can provide a competitive market advantage and long-term stability.

BI technologies provide historical, current and predictive views of business operations. We've found the most common functions of business intelligence technologies to be reporting, online analytical processing, analytics, data mining, complex event processing, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics.

At POA Systems, our goal of modern business intelligence deployments is to help our customers achieve and support better business decision-making. BI uses technologies, processes, and applications to analyze mostly internal, structured data and business processes while competitive intelligence gathers, analyzes, and disseminates information with a topical focus on company competitors. If understood broadly, business intelligence can include the subset of competitive intelligence.

In computing, a Data Warehouse or Enterprise Data Warehouse is a database primarily used for reporting and data analysis. Generally a central repository of data created by integrating data across multiple sources, it often not only stores historical data but is used for creating trending reports and used as a foundation for advanced business intelligence.

At POA Systems, we provide services in strategy, design, architecture, deployment and implementation of data warehousing solutions. Our specialty is helping companies solve business problems using the data they already collect but don't necessarily know how to use. Our business-driven methodologies help companies of all sizes to optimize the accessibility of their data.