Business intelligence (BI) aims to transform data into meaningful information to support business decisions and growth. BI evolved from manually assembled reports in the pre-1970s to performance management occurring twice a year in the 1990s to today's real-time analytics and predictive insights. BI blends tools, processes, and skills to analyze large volumes of data, allowing effective decisions through access to clean, high-quality data visualization and insights. The future of BI includes enhanced data-driven insights, identifying strategies through natural language queries, and more personalized and real-time intelligent decision automation.