Business Intelligence and Visual Analytics-Based Strategy for disaster risk observatory development

Storytelling in Visual Analytics Tools for Business Intelligence

Stories help us communicate knowledge, share and interpret experiences. In this paper we discuss the use of storytelling in Business Intelligence (BI) analysis. We derive the actual practices in creating and sharing BI stories from in-depth interviews with expert BI analysts (both story “creators” and “readers”). These interviews revealed the need to extend current BI visual analysis applicatio...

Video Analytics for Business Intelligence

This chapter focuses on various algorithms and techniques in video analytics that can be applied to the business intelligence domain. The goal is to provide the reader with an overview of the state of the art approaches in the field of video analytics, and also describe the various applications where these technologies can be applied. We describe existing algorithms for extraction and processin...

Business intelligence analytics.

Data-driven decision making—orienting business decisions around data—drives major IT initiatives across all business sectors. Although buzzwords such as “data-driven decisions” and its “big data” and “data science” cousins might be overused, underneath them lie real opportunities for organizations to understand and reflect on their processes and customers. Collecting the information is only the...

Business intelligence and analytics fundamentals

Category: Business Analytics and Intelligence Business Intelligence through Analytics and Foresight

Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Analytics (BA) are very fast moving fields which have evolved greatly from fields such as Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD). Today the focus of much research in BI centers on the notion of the BI software platform and its analytic capabilities. The implications of the term business intelligence are much broader, however, and indicate ...