Continuous intelligence (CI) is a data analysis process that delivers real-time analytics and insights as a part of ongoing business operations.
CI technology takes current and historical data, analyzes it, and provides insights and actions an organization can take in response. Continuous intelligence also provides decision support and automated decision-making capabilities. This gives corporate executives, business managers, operational employees and automated systems deployed by an organization a real-time awareness of business scenarios as they happen.
The addition of continuous intelligence tools to computer systems lets organizations make better and faster decisions. That, in turn, lets them improve the business processes or functions supported by platforms that have incorporated CI.
Continuous intelligence goes beyond business intelligence (BI) and even embedded analytics, as CI not only provides insights to user queries but uses machine learning to continuously monitor and process data in the background to uncover unidentified trends. This helps organizations develop a more complete picture of their operations and gain even more value from their data. In addition to machine learning, continuous intelligence relies on augmented analytics, event stream processing, business rule management and decision management technologies.