Mega BI vendors have incorporated comprehensive statistics packages within their BI software system. For example, IBM has incorporated the SPSS with their BI Cognos system, and SAS Inc. has developed their BI software with a core consisting of their celebrated statistical packaged software. Microsoft has developed XLSTAT, an add-on to Excel for Statistics and multivariate data analysis. Along with the inclusion of statistical capabilities, BI vendors have also incorporated Data mining capabilities in their software. Data mining is an extension of statistical techniques such as, classical and artificial intelligence