The methods and systems for providing real-time business intelligence using search-based analytics engine facilitate a user to input a natural language query with regard to business analytics and obtain an analytics report in response without the user aggregating or processing raw data from a database query. Such business intelligence platform may receive a data analytics request including a user-desired data variable via a user interface; receive, via the user interface, user-configured parameters identifying a user-selected data source and a user-defined data set; form the user-defined data set based on user-configured parameters; query the user-defined data set to obtain a query result of the user-desired data variable; and generate a user interactive graphical representation of the query result of user-desired data variable.
