Quick BI AIPro

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Quick BI AIPro is Alibaba Cloud's next-generation, AI-driven business intelligence analysis platform that deeply integrates traditional business intelligence (BI) capabilities with large language models (LLMs). You can use natural language conversations to perform the entire workflow, from data queries and visual analysis to report generation. This enables a complete analysis path from a high-level overview to detailed breakdown, attribution, diagnosis, and finally, actionable insights.

Use cases

  • A business manager asks for "last week's year-over-year sales by region" five minutes before a morning meeting and instantly receives a chart with attribution analysis.

  • An operations specialist asks, "Why did GMV decline in East China?", and the AI automatically drills down to a three-level attribution analysis by category, channel, and store.

  • A finance professional generates a monthly business dashboard through conversation and sets up a recurring task that sends the report on the first of every month.

Core advantages

The following table compares Quick BI AIPro with traditional BI.

Dimension

Traditional BI

Quick BI AIPro

Usage Method

Drag and drop fields, write SQL, and view static dashboards.

Ask questions in natural language and conduct multi-turn follow-ups.

Response Time

Requests are queued and can take days or weeks.

Data and analysis results are returned in seconds.

Analysis Mode

Business teams rely on analysts to generate attribution conclusions.

The AI breaks down and reasons through problems to generate in-depth, comprehensive attribution insights.

Analysis Methods

Manually perform drill-downs, link data, and create analysis reports.

Explore and analyze through conversations. Use the infinite canvas to connect ideas and focus your analysis. Analysis results are generated automatically.

Barrier to Entry

Requires SQL and BI modeling skills, familiarity with module configurations, and involves a learning curve.

No technical barrier for business users.

Reusable Assets

Dashboards

Analysis outputs with dynamically updated data (reports, documents), one-time analysis reports, and recurring subscription tasks.

Features

  • Dual-view navigation structure: After you log in to Quick BI AIPro, the homepage displays a dual-view navigation structure: My and Enterprise.

    • My view: Your personal workspace where you can manage your conversations, analysis outputs, subscription tasks, and personal data assets.

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    • Enterprise view: A public marketplace for enterprise resources, where you can browse the Data Plaza, Skill Plaza, and MCP Plaza.

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  • Platform module switching: You can switch to other modules, such as the Quick BI Workbench and Management Center. You can also view information about your usage, knowledge, and shares in the Personal Center.image

    • ① Switch to Quick BI Workbench

    • ② Go to the Message CenterimageHere, you can centrally manage and track permission request processes for various resources, including My Tasks and My Applications. You can approve, view details, withdraw, or filter requests as needed.

    • ③ Go to the Management Center

    • ④ Go to the Organization Management page in Quick BI

    • ⑤ Personal CenterimageView your Personal Account Information, My Quota, My Knowledge and Preferences, My Shares, Personal Identification Code, and Language Settings.

      Item

      Description

      Personal Account Information

      View your account name and ID.

      My Quota

      In My Quota, you can view the amount of Credit used and the quota limit for the current billing cycle.

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      My Knowledge and Preferences

      My Knowledge and Preferences includes three tabs: My Knowledge, My Memory, and Personal Workbook.

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      • My Knowledge: Records the business definitions, term explanations, and calculation standards that you personally use. These are visible only to you and can be added manually.

        imageBusiness Definition: Define common business concepts within your enterprise. You can enter frequently used and standard terms from your business operations (for example, Sales Progress, GMV), with a maximum of 100 characters.

        Data Interpretation: Provide detailed explanations of the current business definition, including its calculation logic and important notes, to help the large language model better understand it. You can enter a maximum of 1,000 characters.

        Synonym: Enter other common names or aliases for the current business term. This helps the large language model recognize different ways of asking about the same business definition.

        Press Enter after typing to add a term. To add multiple synonyms at once, separate them with a semicolon (;). Once added, the AI automatically applies this knowledge whenever any of the synonyms are used in a question about the relevant data resources.

      • My Memory: Stores information related to your role, business context, and history. The system automatically populates this from your conversations.

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        You can use the Automatically extract memory toggle to enable or disable this feature. When enabled, the system automatically extracts and records key information from your conversations. This content cannot be edited.

      • Personal Workbook: Set your preferred methods for analysis and output that you want the AI to follow consistently. This setting applies only to you and can be viewed and edited.

      My Shares

      In My Shares, you can view your shared resources and enable or disable sharing, copy links, and delete items.

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      Personal Identification Code

      View your Personal Identification Code.

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      Language Settings

      Switch the display language.

      The default is your browser's language. You can switch to Simplified Chinese or English.

  • Analysis mode switching: AIPro supports two modes: Chat Mode and Canvas Mode.

    • Chat Mode: The core functional module of Quick BI AIPro. You can describe your analysis needs in natural language, and the AI automatically queries data, performs calculations, and returns structured results. It supports multi-turn follow-up questions, output generation, and one-click subscriptions.

    • Canvas Mode: A visual workbench for intelligent conversational analysis. You can move the analysis results generated in your conversation onto the canvas for free-form arrangement and presentation. It accommodates all outputs from the conversation (such as charts, text, reports, dashboards, HTML, and files) and allows you to organize, ask follow-up questions about, and combine these outputs to create new works.

  • Intent recognition: AIPro uses conversational intent recognition to automatically map the natural language you enter to a corresponding action, such as data query, visualization, diagnosis, report generation, or scheduled task creation. This eliminates the need to manually switch to a specific function page. The system then returns relevant analysis results based on your question.

  • Multiple output formats: AIPro generates outputs in various formats, including document reports, visual reports, HTML reports, PowerPoint presentations, and skills.

  • Using analysis results: You can share, subscribe to, and download your analysis results.

  • View history: You can view and search the history of your My Tasks and My Subscriptions in the lower part of the left-side navigation pane.image

Workflow

The Quick BI AIPro workflow has two main tracks: administrator configuration and user tasks. The following sections describe the steps and provide links to relevant documentation:

Administrator configuration

Step

Action

Description

1

Configure User Permissions

Use a custom role to grant permissions to users.

2

Manage Data

Connect your enterprise data, allowing business users to find and use pre-set enterprise data, including data tables, datasets, files, APIs, and other enterprise data assets.

3

Pre-configure Data Assets

(Optional) Pre-configure frequently used data assets. This allows business users to see commonly used departmental data assets immediately after logging in. They do not need to configure and search for data sources themselves.

4

Configure Enterprise Business Knowledge

Configure the Knowledge Center. Consolidate your enterprise's business metrics, indicator definitions, and field descriptions into AIPro to ensure that AI-generated analysis aligns with your company's standards.

5

Skill Management

(Optional) Configure analysis skills. Turn standard enterprise analysis methods and workflows (such as monthly business reviews, anomaly attribution, and store performance dashboards) into reusable AI skills.

6

MCP Management

(Optional) Connect an MCP connector. Integrate external tools (such as DingTalk, Lark, internal APIs, and industry data sources) into the AI analysis process by using MCP (Model Context Protocol) to expand the scope of analysis.

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Operations Management

View user activity, including questions, data retrieval processes, and like/dislike feedback.

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Credit Management

Manage Credit and quotas. Control and audit resource consumption by users within your enterprise.

User tasks

Step

Action

Description

1

Manage My Data

Configure your data assets. You can add enterprise data from the Data Plaza or upload your own local files. Supported file types include Excel, PDF, Word, Markdown, and TXT.

2

Create a task

Describe your analysis needs in natural language. The AI automatically queries and analyzes the data, returning structured results. The system supports multi-turn follow-up questions, output generation, and one-click subscriptions, offering both Chat Mode and Canvas Mode for interaction.

3

View My Analytics

A central place to store and manage all the analysis outputs you have created and saved during your conversational analysis sessions.

4

Manage My Subscriptions

The module for managing scheduled analysis tasks. You can configure important analysis tasks to run at scheduled intervals. The system automatically executes them at your specified frequency and delivers the results through various channels, such as email, DingTalk, or WeCom.

5

Manage My Skills

Add and manage skills for use in analyses.

Required permissions

Users must be assigned an organization role with the relevant AIPro permissions.image

  • Users with the Basic Features permission for AIPro can use the platform.

  • Users with the Centralized Management permission for AIPro can manage the platform.