Nowadays, information overload hinders the discovery of business intelligence on the World Wide Web. Existing business intelligence tools suffer from a lack of analysis and visualization capabilities and traditional result list display by search engines often overwhelms business analysts with irrelevant information. Thus, developing tools that enable better analysis while reduce information ove...

The main characteristics of Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) are explained, as well as the usage of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions as Web services in an SOA environment. With the evolution of BI, a focus is shifted from technology to organizational impacting factors, making Web services and SOA technologies more and more attractive. Organizations that choose a Web services and SOA stra...

The quantity of information around us is rising wherever we look. Companies are using Business Intelligence techniques to explore data to get a complete view of their operations which allows them to discover trends, improve their forecasting and operate more efficiently. The banking industry perceives Business Intelligence as a major tool for determining the consumer creditworthiness. For that ...

Radio Frequency Identification” (RFID) promises to enable an automatic collection of shopping data for business intelligent purposes. Three important components of intelligence have been identified for systems; ability to predict, ability to adapt and ability to take appropriate action. While extensive research has been done on shopping assistants and the use of RFID in the grocery industry, th...

Business intelligence is a key means to promote core competence of enterprise. The high construction cost of business intelligence severely limits the popularization and development of business intelligence system. Business process management (BPM) is a key business initiative that enables companies to align strategic and operational objectives with business activities in order to fully manage ...