Preface Business Intelligence has for the past many decades been a reliable source of business decision support for companies It is an umbrella term of IT solutions to help analyze massive amounts of data and slice and dice the data to provide relevant reports to the business users Over the years there have been many advancements in the technology available for BI but there is still a large gap to cover when it comes to implementation and complete adoption Being a Masters student in the field data science and business analytics I did not anticipate this discrepancy and I was inspired to explore further and make it the basis of my thesis I got the opportunity to observe the ground reality and substantiate my perspective that any technology related to data analysis is only as powerful and effective as its implementation application and adoption is I have a few key people to thank without whom I would not be able to accomplish this mammoth task My thesis director Professor Nicolas Prat guided me through every critical step of the process
