Expected progress in the field of business intelligence

  • Authors:
  • Zeljko Panian

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, Croatia

  • Venue:
  • AIKED'09 Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS international conference on Artificial intelligence, knowledge engineering and data bases
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Through 15 years of evolution, Business Intelligence (BI) has gone a long way. Today's BI solutions are almost non-comparable concerning their functionalities and usefulness to those developed few years earlier. This is, of course, a favorable situation, but it has some drawbacks too. Unfortunately, BI solutions come from different vendors, imply specific philosophies, run on different platforms, and require specific knowledge to operate them efficiently. The result is complex BI environments that are not simply manageable and controllable. Therefore, a methodology and subsequent technologies have been developed with the goal to ease the tasks of complex BI environments management and governance, and make them more useful to business users. The methodology and appropriate technologies are called Business Intelligence Application Management (BIAM). They are not cheap to implement, but the cost of the BIAM technology itself is rapidly justified through the improved efficiency, performance, and user satisfaction.