Natural Language Processing Will Make Business Intelligence Apps More Accessible Natural language processing (NLP) with business intelligence (BI) applications has been used sparingly but that may all soon change as speech recognition interfaces infused with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities become a lot more advanced. A recent report published by the market research firm Dresner Advisory Services notes that out of 41 business intelligence capabilities ranked in a survey of end users natural language analytics (NLA) came in 32nd in relative importance. However, 70% of respondents said NLA capabilities are important, it is just that BI fundamentals such as self-service dashboards still take precedence over comparatively emerging technologies such as NLA. Only 13% of respondents said NLA is not important.