Business intelligence systems: a comparative analysis

  • Authors:
  • Carlo Dell'Aquila;Francesco Di Tria;Ezio Lefons;Filippo Tangorra

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Bari, Bari, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Bari, Bari, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Bari, Bari, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Bari, Bari, Italy

  • Venue:
  • WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

A set of evaluation criteria is described and considered for comparing some popular OLAP systems that support Business Intelligence. These criteria involve critical aspects such as: information delivery, system and user administration, and OLAP queries. The measurement method is based on the functional complexity analysis. Experimental results have been carried out using a data warehouse in academic environment and they allow to evidence the weaknesses and the points of force of each compared system.