Business analysis activity often involves the identification and extraction of information from business reports. The unstructured content of business reports poses a challenge to current Business Intelligence technologies. In this paper, we present an application that provides passage retrieval capability, which has been developed for use in business analysis activity at Hewlett-PackardTM (HP)...

Emergence of information technologies has transformed the way business marketing is done and how business enterprises are managing the resources and information. Trend of globalization has induced the fierce competitiveness among business enterprises within domestic and international markets. The major quest for the technologies is not limited to strategic value of an organization but also empo...

Due to the fast development of new technologies, the Business Intelligence market is changing rapidly, forcing vendors to adapt their offerings to the customers’ needs. As the amount of data available to companies has been substantially increasing in the past years, the need of suitable software tools that perform the right analyses became essential, even in the small and medium sized business'...

This paper summarizes the discussions at the 3rd Workshop on Business Process Intelligence (BPI 07) which was held at the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 07) in Brisbane, Australia. We focus in particular on three cases that were referenced in the BPI roundtable and discuss some practical challenges. Finally, we identify future research directions for business p...

Digital extended enterprises are faced with the dual challenge of managing intra-organizational information and monitoring information from the external environment. Survival requires the effective use of information and decision technologies to gather, manage, and exploit knowledge. It also entails the extensive sharing of information with business network partners through information linkages...

Business process management and business intelligence are fields which gain a lot of attention in recent years. These techniques try to improve not only efficiency of processes but also save considerable cost. Graph based representation of concepts (objects, data) are also used in business domain to support aforementioned techniques. Graph mining methods are successful in many fields for discov...

a r t i c l e i n f o Intelligent systems have particular potentialities and strengths to support decisional situations faced by companies , especially those of a strategic nature, where good strategic intelligence is necessary. In this paper, we carry out an historical literature review of artificial intelligence-based systems applied to marketing, covering a time period of several decades (fr...