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[[Image:KPI.png|left|75px]] Business intelligence (BI) is a set of theories, methodologies, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence]. While operational systems - such as {{IMSMANG}} and many others - are designed and optimised for data entry, and updates, etc., a BI system is usually read-only and designed for '''analysing ''' and '''visualising ''' data. It is thus a read-only system. The Mine Action INTelligence Tool (MINT -- the name is a reference to Business Intelligence) has been introduced to allow analysing, visualising and reporting on mine action data from various sources. It overall objective is a tool and service provided by the GICHD to inform the wider mine action community. Use cases for MINT include:* Creating digital dashboards to convey specific information to specific audiences* Tracking indicators and progressdecision making process, thus allow for example through gauges and traffic lights -evidence- based decision making. An important criterion of the underlying data is an activity on track or not* Creating interactive reports* Scheduling reports and sending notifications its '''quality''' -- for example, send a specific report as a PDF attachment by email every Monday at 08:00 to meaningful analysis can only be achieved if the operations manager* Performing ad-hoc input data analyses by dragging and dropping fields from predefined data sources More details is accurate, complete, and a list of all features are available on the [[MINT|main MINT page]]. [[File:MINT_scopeknown quality.png|center|500px]]