The Web provides us with a vast resource for business intelligence. However, the large size of the Web and its dynamic nature make the task of foraging appropriate information challenging. Generalpurpose search engines and business portals may be used to gather some basic intelligence. Topical crawlers, driven by richer contexts, can then leverage on the basic intelligence to facilitate in-dept...

The dynamic business environment of many organizations require to monitor their business, IT and organizational processes in real-time in order to proactively respond to exceptions and to take advantage of time-sensitive business opportunities. The ability to sense and interpret events about a changing business environment or customer needs require an event-driven IT infrastructure for making f...

This work presents an Adaptively Secure Broadcast Mechanism (ASBM) based on threats analytics and case based reasoning. It defines the security intelligence of a broadcast system comprehensively with a novel concept of collective intelligence. The algorithmic mechanism is analyzed from the perspectives of security intelligence, communication complexity, computational intelligence and business i...

The paper investigates the challenges of implementing Business Intelligence (BI) in NHS Wales. The study is informed by extant literature, a modified Delphi approach that draws on the knowledge of ten expert panellists from the NHS/Welsh public sector, and from the extensive industry experience of one of the authors of this study. Our adapted Delphi methodology lends itself to supporting the na...

Assessing IT business value has long been recognized as a major challenge, stemming largely from the considerable variability in the role and contribution of IT. This study examines the business value associated with business intelligence (BI) systems, suggesting that business value assessment is largely contingent on system type and should consider its unique contribution. The study adopts a p...

The focus on transactional systems in the earlier decades of information management is beginning to shift toward decisions. In order to study the relationship between information and decisions, the author interviewed 32 managers in 27 organizations where an attempt to use information to support decision-making had been made. A framework involving three different relationships between informatio...

to the “skills, technologies, applications, and practices used to support decision making” (http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence). On the basis of a survey of 1,400 CEOs, the Gartner Group projected BI revenue to reach $3 billion in 2009.1 Through BI initiatives, businesses are gaining insights from the growing volumes of transaction, product, inventory, customer, competitor, and...

Social Business Intelligence (SBI) relies on user-generated content to let decision-makers analyze their business in the light of the environmental trends. SBI projects come in a variety of shapes, with different demands. Hence, finding the right cost-benefit compromise depending on the project goals and time horizon and on the available resources may be hard for the designer. In this paper we ...

Today, BI systems and applications, which generate information and knowledge from the data in information systems, are a priority for companies called upon to invest in ICT technologies that can contribute to the implementation of an effective competitive strategy determine a change in the processes and culture of a business. After defining the concept of Business Intelligence, this work attemp...

The purposeful application of selective outsourcing has become a core building block of IT Governance approaches. It seems compelling to apply outsourcing rationales for activities related to integrated management support infrastructures – Business Intelligence (BI) infrastructures –, which have grown in scale, scope and relevance in the recent years. Results from an exploratory study back this...