Business intelligence (BI) is the process of gathering enough of the right information in the right manner at the right time, and delivering the right results to the right people for decision-making purposes so that it can continue to yield real business benefits, or have a positive impact on business strategy, tactics, and operations in the enterprises. This paper was intended as a short introduction to the study of business intelligence in enterprise computing environment. In addition, the conclusions point out the challenges to broad and deep deployment of business intelligence systems, and provide the proposals of making business intelligence more effective.