Which of the following refers to applications and technologies that are used to gather, provide access to, and analyze data and information to support decision-making efforts?

Business Intelligence

Explanation:

Business Intelligence  refers to the processes or technologies which are used to collect, analyse and present data and business information. The main goal of BI is to take cost effective and productive business decisions, making the decision making process efficient and better. It is the set of services that transform the data into useful information.The information gathered using this technology can be accessed quickly which helps to make fast business decisions. The organized data can be used to generate reports from the data quickly  and it is easy to find or detect the flaws or certain areas that require attention . BI provides timely and information and dashboards to assess whether the business goals are being achieved.BI also provides with automatic and predictive data analysis methods that helps the decision makers to make productive business decisions.

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