BioInformant's unique algorithmic approach to harvesting business information from the Web provides our clients with a critical business edge. We offer the following resources to help you better understand business intelligence and BioInformant's enabling technologies:
Article 1: What Is Business Intelligence
The term “Business Intelligence” (BI) encompasses the tools and techniques that play a significant role in the strategic planning process of a business. These systems allow business leaders to generate, store, and analyze data in order to aid in decision-making. Identifying and incorporating business intelligence strategies into a company’s business planning is the key to become and to remain a forward-thinking enterprise. More...
Article 2: Internet-Enabled Business Intelligence
With the popularity of the Internet continually accelerating, it has become a novel way by which businesses can communicate with prospects, customers, and other businesses. This transformation to business visibility has caused in a much more competitive business environment. What will be required of successful businesses is the ability to progress from data (the raw statistics available through the vast World Wide Web) to information (context in which they can be analyzed) to intelligence (the collective knowledge from which strategic actions can be deduced). More...
Article 3: Understanding Internet Spiders
Technically speaking, internet spiders are computer programs that are capable of searching through a vast quantity of data in order to identify relevant results. Internet spiders are written using computer code to specify algorithms that can systematically solve certain kinds of problem – such as retrieving data from the World Wide Web that contains characteristics that make it of value or relevance to the programmer who wrote the “spider”. More...
Article 4: Business Intelligence Survey
Business Intelligence (BI) tools help companies monitor performance and improve business
planning and decision making. Due to tight corporate accountability standards now in place, sound business decisions and planning are not just advantageous, but imperative. This (free) market research report analyzes deployment of business intelligence tools, the benefits and drawbacks of increased employee access to business tools, and projection/trends for future reliance of U.S. businesses on business intelligence tools. More...
