Definition
Business intelligence analytics is the process of collecting, processing, and analysing data to gain actionable insights and inform strategic decisions. It involves leveraging various tools and methodologies to identify trends, patterns and anomalies over time to guide future business strategies.
Purpose
Business intelligence analytics enables strategic understanding and better-informed decision making.
Business intelligence analytics is realised through:
- the bringing together of datasets from various sources
- utilisation of analytics functionality embedded within existing platforms, and integration of specialised data and analytics tools with other platforms and applications
- enabling users to visualise information, gain insights, and make informed decisions quickly to improve business outcomes.
Objectives
The objectives of this content are to:
- ensure business intelligence analytics solutions across government are implemented to a secure standard relevant to their risk of security compromise
- ensure entities are familiar with business intelligence analytics best practices, to enable informed decisions on investment in business intelligence analytics solutions
- ensure new solutions leverage past investments, implementations, and learnings to enhance security, efficiency and encourage re-use while minimising risk
- ensure strategic alignment of business intelligence analytics features to the Australian Government’s cyber security goals
- meet the minimum compliance with contractual obligations, legislation and regulation, government policies and standards, and any national or international agreements relating to business intelligence analytics
- considering the capability as complementary to other related capabilities, including Information Management, Advanced Data Analytics and Operational Analytics.
Whole-of-government applicability
The Data and Digital Government Strategy (DDGS) sets a vision for 2030 to deliver simple, secure and connected public services for all people and business, through world class data and digital capabilities.
Business intelligence analytics is identified as a key capability for the DDGS mission of “Delivering for all people and business”. Under this mission, the outcome to “maximise value from data” guides the APS to:
- deliver work which optimises the use of data through integration and analytics and improves decision making
- collect and analyse data to assess whether solutions, services, and policies are achieving their intended purpose are being implemented in the best possible way
- harness analytical tools and techniques to predict service needs, improve user experience, support evidence-based decisions and gain efficiencies in agency operations.