Business Intelligence (BI) is the process of transforming the obtained information from business data into knowledge that could be used to enhance the business's growth. Data represents facts and figures, while information is processed data. And when the information is further processed, it adds sense and meaning to it to become knowledge. Business intelligence has five major stages: 1. Data Sourcing – Obtaining data from different sources in the electric form, such as digital cameras, database queries, computer file access, web searches, scanners, etc. 2. Data Analysis – The data is analyzed by estimating current trends, understanding and predicting missing information, summarizing the available information, and predicting future trends. 3. Situation Awareness – BI is about filtering the irrelevant information to stay only with the relevant information that can be of any value. 4. Risk Assessment – BI is about assessing the risks and benefits of different decisions that are taken. 5. Decision Support – BI helps to assess every decision that has been taken to improve on portions where it is required and make everything smooth.