Abstract

It is no longer possible to run a successful business in highly competitive industries without introducing modern automated analytical tools termed "Business Intelligence" into management activities. The article considers a brief structure of the concept of "Business Intelligence" and its main components: Data Warehouses, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) systems, OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) technology and Data Mining. The article also reviews market leaders of complex platforms that support BI tools, such as MS SQL Server and Power BI from Microsoft, Oracle BI, Cognos BI from IBM, QlikView products, as well as SAP Business Objects from SAP. The demand for skills in the field of "Business Intelligence" tools and platforms in the Russian labor market is studied based on data from the website of HeadHunter, an Internet recruitment company.