Business intelligence (BI) information that includes at least one application-level directive associated with a received application-level request is collected at a BI framework situated between a transport adapter layer and a network layer of a computing device. A determination is made as to whether to defer transmission of the received application-level request based upon an evaluation of the at least one application-level directive within the collected BI information relative to current network transmission conditions. The received application-level request is stored locally in response to determining to defer transmission of the received application-level request based upon the evaluation of the at least one application-level directive within the collected BI information relative to the current network transmission conditions.