Business intelligence comprises the strategies and technologies used by enterprises for the data analysis of business information.
Competitive intelligence is a legal business practice, as opposed to industrial espionage, which is illegal.
The focus is on the external business environment.
Common functions of business intelligence include reporting, online analytical processing, analytics, dashboard development, process mining, complex event processing, business performance management, text mining, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics.
OSINT gathering leads the analysts
to discover an alternate hypothesis to analyze and then match relevant data for
making a prediction regarding the subjects behavior identifies and response; e.g., data is scrubbed from web
access on Facebook entries, Twitter messages, and Snapchat. Should those methods fail, the next step is to
seek the specialized behavioral intelligence services that reference OSINT to
aid in establishing the veracity of subjects and is used to create a behavioral
profile. OSINT data is correlated with colected data to include a variety
behavioral patterns; e.g., a list of daily personal contacts, habits of
activities, visited places of interest, vehicles used, favorite group
involvements, etc. Definition
of our services regards it as the organizational function responsible for the
early identification of risks and opportunities in the market before they
become obvious ("early
signal analysis"). This definition focuses attention on the difference
between dissemination of widely available factual information (such as market
statistics, financial reports,
newspaper clippings) performed by functions such as libraries and information
centers.
