Since the computer age dawned on mankind, one of the most important areas in information technology has been that of “decision support.” Today, this area is more important than ever. Working in dynamic and ever-changing environments, modern-day managers are responsible for an assortment of far reaching decisions: Should the company increase or decrease its workforce? Enter new markets? Develop ...

Data-driven decision making—orienting business decisions around data—drives major IT initiatives across all business sectors. Although buzzwords such as “data-driven decisions” and its “big data” and “data science” cousins might be overused, underneath them lie real opportunities for organizations to understand and reflect on their processes and customers. Collecting the information is only the...

Die Anforderungen an die Datenintegration und Datenanalyse im Krankenhaus steigen durch eine Vielzahl gesetzlicher Reformen und den sich daraus ergebenden Fragestellungen. Bislang finden sich am Markt nur einige wenige, oftmals spezialisiert Produkte, welche an die Anforderungen des Krankenhausbereiches angepasst sind. Potenziale aufgrund der umfassend im Krankenhaus vorhandenen Kundendaten (Pa...

An automatic system i s being developed to disseminate information to the various sections of any industrial, scientific or government organization. This intelligence system will utilize data-processing machines for auto-abstracting and auto-encoding of documents and for creating interest profiles for each of the " action points " in an organization. Both incoming and internally generated docum...

This paper investigates the use of data warehouse and business intelligence capabilities to integrate with customers in the supply chain and improve insights into customer sales. By making that same data warehouse sales information available to customers, this paper explores how the data warehouse can provide additional value to those customers, eliminating asymmetries of information in the sup...

With today’s Business Intelligence (BI) tools, businesses can move quickly and begin analyzing data rather than waiting for Information Technology (IT) to run complex reports. Access to this shared information helps users substantiate decisions that would otherwise be based solely on intuition and biased opinions (Kelly, 2010). These tools have evolved from narrowly focused queries and reports ...

Organizations strive to enhance performance in an amplified ambiguous environment, by assessing internal working units’ efficiency and redesigning organizational structure to achieve this goal. Business Intelligence (BI) is an IT resource that impact both process and overall organization performance. Identifying how BI affects performance has major implications for both organizations that imple...

The idea of collaborative BI is to extend the decision-making process beyond the company boundaries thanks to cooperation and data sharing with other companies and organizations. Unfortunately, traditional BI applications are aimed at serving individual companies, and they cannot operate over networks of companies characterized by an organizational, lexical, and semantic heterogeneity. In such ...

The approach of Business Intelligence (BI) as a support function for management decisions is established in practice and theory. BI can not just be considered as a simple sequence of isolated single projects. Its coordination requires permanent efforts to keep the BI function and the business organization in alignment. In the context of the present empirical study, BI organizations have been an...