Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics platforms deliver self-service exploration, dashboarding, and reporting on top of the data warehouse or semantic layer. Core capabilities include interactive visual exploration, pre-built and ad-hoc dashboards, scheduled and triggered report delivery, embedded analytics for customer-facing products, a semantic or metrics layer that centralizes business definitions, natural-language query interfaces, alerting on metric thresholds, and row-level access control. The category has evolved from monolithic enterprise BI platforms to modern metrics-layer-centric products and notebook-style analysis tools. Leading vendors include Tableau (Salesforce), Microsoft Power BI, Looker (Google), Qlik, ThoughtSpot, Sigma, Mode, Metabase, and Preset.