Analytic Applications

Analytic Applications are a type of business application software, used to measure and improve the performance of business operations. More specifically, Analytic Applications are a type of Business Intelligence solution. As such they use collections of historical data about business operations to provide business users with information and tools that allow them to make improvements in business functions.

The maturity levels for business intelligence solutions are as follows:
 * Operational Reporting
 * Analytic Reporting
 * Business Dashboards
 * Analytic Applications