Analytic applications are a type of business application software, used to measure and improve the performance of business operations.
[1] More specifically, analytic applications are a type of business intelligence.
The maturity levels for business intelligence are: It may extend further to predictive analytics, or predictive analysis may form part of the analytic application - depending on both the subject matter under analysis, and the nature of the analysis required.
Analytic applications are typically described as a subset of performance management.
The maturity level of this automation is as follows: In most cases, these three levels are discrete functions, loosely banded together as a single product, and there is little automation of the process from end to end.