Business Intelligence (BI) software provides the tools to transform data into actionable insights that inform an organization's strategic and tactical business decisions. BI tools will integrate data into compelling visualizations, provide transparency throughout the organization, and track key business metrics for decision makers enabling better decision making. Successful Business Intelligence and analytics deployments provide direction and requirements for data warehousing and data integration, and paves the way for predictive analytics, big data analytics, market/industry intelligence and social network analytics. The best BI deployments recognize the varying levels of analytical skills among users and make use of tools and training that support both the novice as well as the data scientist.