To be more competitive, to expand into new markets, and to improve customer service - businesses need to effectively extract, consolidate and analyze their business data in order to develop intelligent insights into their business.
Business Intelligence delivers answers to the questions such as 'Who are my best customers as well the worst customers?' 'Is the business healthy? ', 'Do we have a right mix of people?' 'Who are my best suppliers?' 'Do we deliver products on time?'...
Corporate Performance Management (CPM) provides organizations a framework whereby organizations can set objectives, describe historic and expected performance, measure actual performance, analyze the outcomes, and perform “what-if” scenario analysis and planning.
As an idea, or rather as a buzz word, big data subsumes many other topics, such as business analysis, data analysis, business intelligence, data intelligence, even that most general of all words, information management.