An intelligence engine is a type of enterprise information management that combines business rule management, predictive, and prescriptive analytics to form a unified information access platform that provides real-time intelligence through search technologies, dashboards and/or existing business infrastructure.
Intelligence Engines are process and/or business problem specific, resulting in industry and/or function-specific marketing trademarks associated with them.
They can be differentiated from enterprise resource planning (ERP) software in that intelligence engines include organization-level business rules and proactive decision management functionality.
[1] This combined standalone business intelligence tools like a data warehouse, reporting and querying software and a decision support system.
[2] LogRhythm Inc. advanced the concept in 2010 by adding event managers to the end of the intelligence engine's process to determine reporting, remediation and other outcomes.