The paper focuses on the Business Intelligence systems. At the beginning, knowledge as an important and strategic asset that determines a success of an enterprise is presented. Next, some characteristics of the Business Intelligence systems are discussed and their architecture is described. Purposefulness of applying such solutions in an enterprise is highlighted. An integrated approach to buil...

Background and Aim: Business Intelligence, not as a tool of a product but as a new approach is propounded in organizations to make tough decisions in business as shortly as possible. Hospital managers often need business intelligence in their fiscal, operational, and clinical reports and indices. Recognition of critical success factors (CSF) is necessary for each organization or project. Yet, t...

Computational intelligence business applications have been developed since the early days of computing and are now commonly found in many aspects of modern society. This paper briefly surveys historic applications of computational intelligence in different business contexts. In addition, it describes this type of application from a business point of view, where computational intelligence is use...

Organizations define business models as part of its strategic thinking from which build performance evaluation structures focused on the effectiveness and efficiency of their goals. Usually the business model is captured in various organization representations with little interoperability between them. On the other hand, the performance are evaluated using business intelligence systems. Despite...

The strategic goal of Shanghai Airport is to build a perfect domestic and international route network, and construct the air gateway connecting the world with China. Shanghai Airport is speeding up the construction of information systems, and business intelligence is core of the airport decision support system. First, this paper discusses the application blueprint of business intelligence for S...

Business Intelligence (BI) has become one of the most important research areas that help organizations and managers to better decision making process. This paper aims to show the barriers to BI adoption and discusses the most commonly used Business Intelligence Maturity Models (BIMMs). The aim also is to highlight the pitfalls of these BIMMs in order reach a solution. Using new techniques such ...

Organisations invest in Business Intelligence systems to improve their performance, provide management information and support decision-making. In practice however, Business Intelligence can be ineffective. While Business Intelligence software enables company-wide reporting, problems are encountered in the fit between systems’ provision and changing requirements of a growing amount of users. To...

Since 2002, regulations have changed the landscape of internal audit as well as how many internal audit departments are viewed by senior management and the board, making it difficult for internal audit, especially small and medium departments, to maintain a role in the risk management process. Many companies are beginning to realize the benefit of using business intelligence in the risk managem...

Given today’s business environment, at times a corporate executive may feel overwhelmed by the amount of information available and the coverage of what is actually known as Business Intelligence (BI) architecture. There are literally hundreds of product offerings to choose from. For example, a simple Google search for “business intelligence software” yields more than 24 million responses includ...