Decision Intelligence vs BI

Business Intelligence monitors the business. Decision Intelligence helps choose what to change.

BI and Decision Intelligence solve different parts of the same operating problem. BI is strong at descriptive reporting and monitoring. Decision Intelligence adds predictive, causal and prescriptive logic when a team needs to choose an action.

Business Intelligence

Descriptive and diagnostic reporting

  • Dashboards and KPIs
  • Historical and current-state monitoring
  • Drill-down and reporting
  • Supports human interpretation

They work together

Do not rip out useful BI just to add a decision layer.

A good architecture can keep Power BI, Tableau or another BI system for monitoring while Graphite Note supplies predictive, causal or decision outputs where a specific choice needs more than descriptive analytics.

The decision can then be surfaced back inside the existing workflow or product.

BI

Monitor the KPI

See that conversion, demand, scrap or revenue changed.

DI

Model the future and the intervention

Estimate what happens next and what action is expected to improve it.

WORKFLOW

Deliver the recommendation

Put the decision where the responsible team can act on it.