SBI: a semantic framework to support business intelligence

Authors:
Denilson Sell;Dhiogo Cardoso da Silva;Fabiano Duarte Beppler;Marcio Napoli;Fernando Benedet Ghisi;Roberto C. S. Pacheco;José Leomar Todesco
Affiliations:
Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis - SC, Brazil;Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis - SC, Brazil;Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis - SC, Brazil;Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis - SC, Brazil;Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis - SC, Brazil;Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis - SC, Brazil;Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis - SC, Brazil
Venue:
OBI '08 Proceedings of the first international workshop on Ontology-supported business intelligence
Year:
2008

Citing 8
Cited 3

Reusable Components for Knowledge Modelling: Case Studies in Parametric Design Problem Solving

Reusable Components for Knowledge Modelling: Case Studies in Parametric Design Problem Solving
The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling

The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling
Jena: A Semantic Web Toolkit

IEEE Internet Computing
OBSERVER: An Approach for Query Processing in Global Information Systems based on Interoperation across Pre-existing Ontologies

COOPIS '96 Proceedings of the First IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems
Query Processing in the TAMBIS Bioinformatics Source Integration System

SSDBM '99 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
Ontology-based Integration of OLAP and Information Retrieval

DEXA '03 Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
The integration of business intelligence and knowledge management

IBM Systems Journal
Pellet: A practical OWL-DL reasoner

Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web

Semantic cockpit: an ontology-driven, interactive business intelligence tool for comparative data analysis

ER'11 Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Advances in conceptual modeling: recent developments and new directions
An Exploratory Study of Infrastructure Barriers and the Role of Semantic Data Exchange Technologies in the Provisioning of Business Intelligence Services

International Journal of Strategic Information Technology and Applications
MOETA: a novel text-mining model for collecting and analysing competitive intelligence

International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Despite the importance of analytical tools to organizations, they still lack the inference power needed to solve the requests of decision makers in a flexible and smarter way. We present a framework called SBI -- Semantic Business Intelligence - in which we apply ontologies on the description of business rules and concepts in order to support semantic-analytical functionalities that extend traditional OLAP operations. Such approach enables developers to customize BI solutions according to organizations' specific analytical requirements and allows developers align BI solutions to the latest business analytic requirements. We present how semantic inference is supported using batch and on-the-fly based strategies. In addition, we show how such semantic infrastructure makes the access to heterogeneous data sources transparent. Finally, we illustrate the benefits of our approach through Extracta, an analytical tool that relies on SBI ontologies and modules. Extracta enables an easy access to information and provides novel exploratory funcionalities based on semantics towards faster and smarter decisions.