Organizations can achieve many benefits by the integration of Cloud computing approaches in their Business Intelligence (BI) environments. However, the integrated and complex BI architectures make the integration of this new technology difficult. Since the Cloud is no universal remedy, it would be useful to have an evaluation model to decide when the use of Cloud BI is appropriate. This paper c...

Mobile business intelligence (m-BI) is a hot topic attracting the attention of many companies. Little is known about the main motivations that drive a company to adopt an innovation in general and specifically that kind of study is lacking within the mobile BI field, whose research is still in its early stages. This paper has two main contributions: first, the motivations which drive an organiz...

Regardless of the recent growth in the use of “Big Data” and “Business Intelligence” (BI) tools, little research has been undertaken about the implications involved. Analytical tools affect the development and sustainability of a company, as evaluating clientele needs to advance in the competitive market is critical. With the advancement of the population, processing large amounts of data has b...

This paper presents a mathematical model for an inventory control system in which customers’ demands and suppliers’ service time are considered as stochastic parameters. The proposed problem is solved through queuing theory for a single item. In this case, transitional probabilities are calculated in steady state. Afterward, the model is extended to the case of multi-item inventory systems. The...

Measuring Information Systems (IS) value has been constantly attracting much attention and debate within the IS research community. Since information systems effects are often difficult to quantify, traditional payoff evaluation methods often yield conflicting results. In this paper we suggest that some information systems can be evaluated on the basis of their effect on stock return volatility...

The present study investigates the accumulation of vanadium, iron, and nickel in different depths of soil in collection sites of oil sludge, in Masjed Soleyman Oil and Gas Exploitation Company, located in Choob Sorkh Region. To conduct the research, four sampling points have been selected at the mentioned site, with one sampling point chosen outside the site, as the clean area. Soil sampling ha...

As more retailers evolve into customer-centric and segment-based business, business intelligence (BI) and customer relationship management (CRM) systems are playing a key role in achieving and maintaining competitive advantage. For the past ten years, the authors have had the rare opportunity of observing and interviewing employees and managers of three different management teams at three separ...

This paper aims to understand how Business Intelligence (BI) tools are used in the organizational environment in order to support the decision-making process. In this line of reasoning, the research method adopted was the single and exploratory Case Study undertaken in a financial company. The data analysis conducted in this research was based on the framework proposed by Keen & Scott-Morton (1...

The corporate data warehouse integrates data from various operational data stores of a company. These operational data stores may be heterogeneous with respect to the represented information. The hetero-homogeneous data warehouse modeling approach overcomes issues associated with the integration of heterogeneous information from the operational data stores by featuring a generally homogeneous s...

All companies need information in order to make decisions. There is usually too much data spread in the IT systems of the company, but transforming the data into information that can be analyzed in order to make decisions is a difficult process. Considering the demands imposed by the knowledge society, each organization strives to become an intelligent organization and, by the means of new and ...