Commercial Intelligence is the highest and most comprehensive form of legal, ethical open source intelligence as practiced by diverse international and localized businesses.
Competitive intelligence focuses primarily on competitors and their capabilities within shared market spaces.
Business intelligence is a mis-nomer for data mining and enterprise dashboards that present useful patterns or distillations of internal information to the executive.
The most prominent professional association associated with commercial or competitive intelligence is the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) based in Alexandria, Virginia. Many countries around the world either host chapters of SCIP, or have their own indigenous commercial intelligence association.