MUlti-industry, Semantic-based next generation business INtelliGence MUSING aims at developing a new generation of Business Intelligence (BI) tools and modules based on semantic-based knowledge and content systems. Business Intelligence can be described as "the interactive process of analysing and exploring in-formation to discern trends or patterns, thereby deriving insights and drawing conclusions". To support and maximally automate this traditionally human-intensive work, the project MUSING aims at devel-oping a new generation of BI tools and modules founded on semantic-based knowledge and content systems. To this aim, MUSING will integrate Semantic Web and Human Language technolo-gies and combine declarative rule-based methods and statistical approaches for enhancing the technological foundations of knowledge acquisition and reasoning in Business Intelligence applications