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This article aims to present results of an exploratory survey study which proceeded under our postgradual research project in 2010 in the field of investigation of open-source business intelligence tools usage in companies in the Czech Republic. The study results revealed interesting information about factors that firms in the Czech Republic consider in evaluation of open-source business intelligence...
The Innovators Market Game (IMG) has been proposed as a tool for aiding innovative thoughts and communication, coming after our 10-year experiences in chance discovery where tools of data visualization have been applied in cases of decision making of business teams. This game enabled to run and accelerate the process of innovation, as well as to train human's talent of analogical and combinatorial...
In the competitive electronic commerce market, how to evaluate and improve the qualify of its service has become a focus problem. The quality evaluation model of electronic commerce service based on the AHP-FUZZY combines both qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis, forms the overall evaluation framework through the use of evaluation indexes, which draws the comparable and analyzable indexes...
The enormous amount of data on the Web represents a wealth of information and knowledge for business enterprises. This paper highlights state-of-the-art commercial business intelligence (BI) products, prominent BI research, and future development in BI.
Business information system has been adopted as a tool for supporting decision making, anticipating events, and optimizing queries in the effectiveness of meeting customer requirement. Some big companies have been encouraged to speed up business information construction recent years, and push forward successfully in business intelligence technology. This paper presents the simple findings by evaluating...
Business performance management (BPM) is a key business initiative that enables companies to align strategic and operational objectives with business activities in order to fully manage performance through better informed decision making and action. Effective business performance requires an organization to model and monitor not only its tactics but also its strategies and the assumption on which...
Nowadays the importance of information exchange, accumulation and processing is increasing in modern business. It is hard to imagine a big company not having tens, hundreds or even thousands terabytes of accumulated data. The server systems of the large multinational corporations demand significant costs to maintain and apply the huge amounts of the accumulated data. How these amounts of data are...
This paper presents a distributed solution of the synchronization of Business Intelligence (BI) Systems via networking services. The main problem addressed by the proposed project is to create a common solution that allows automatically redeploying of business intelligence applications among different servers located in the Internet. A case study by using the Microsoft BizTalk Server as a Business...
The introduction of fair value measurement has been introduced for a few years, but Enterprises still maintain a cautious attitude. Both from theory and reality, the fair value of the reintroduction is full of controversy. Whether it can reflect the usefulness of accounting information, we do some research in Beijing, Tianjin and Tangshan areas, and fuzzy evaluation method was used to evaluate the...
This paper reports on the commercialization of a business intelligence application deploying computational intelligence techniques. Theoretical foundations are included where appropriate, along with implementation and comparative benchmark results. Discussions on technology transfer mechanisms are included, identifying a generic framework for the commercialization of technology innovations, with a...
In today's competitive world, having an effective business intelligent (BI) system for monitoring and evaluation of industrial and product oriented organizations is vital. A perfect BI must help managers not only to speed up his decision making process; but also to increase quality of their decision. But how? One of the main specifications of an effective BI system is providing managers by correct...
When NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) was established almost a half century ago, the concept of computer-based service delivery was impractical or infeasible due to the state of information technology As a result, the interface the DSN exposes to its customers tends to be equipment-centric, lacking a clear demarcation between the DSN and the mission operation systems (MOS) of its customers. As the...
Teamwork has become increasingly important in modern businesses, and collaborative information systems (CIS) that support teamwork have become critical tools. Our study investigated the factors involved in team members' decision-making in a team context. We used the technology acceptance model (TAM) as a basis and incorporated the team-level factors of consensus on appropriation (COA) and cooperative...
Traditionally, business intelligence provides companies with important, but not real-time or predictive, analysis. Moreover, only technical specialists have typically run BI tools and have done so just for the benefit of management. Pervasive BI remedies these limitations.
This paper examines a number of common business problems and shows how SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services solves these problems in a simple and cost-effective manner. Types of business problems covered are providing a simple, integrated view of data, data mart and niche application consolidation, intelligent views of data, localization challenges, and real-time business intelligence data. These business...
Based on the TAM model, the objectives of this study are to explore organizational roles' differences in e-learning acceptance. A survey taken from 10 financial companies which had implemented e-learning system shows that managers perceived usefulness in e-learning are stronger than perceived ease of use and employee perceived usefulness and ease of use are stronger than managers. The perceived usefulness...
Competitive intelligence (CI) is the practice of gathering and analyzing information about competitors in order to gain an edge in the marketplace where the potential risks and rewards are amplified. CI offers a real strategic advantage for many businesses and it is important to any business that wishes to make better-informed decisions. Taking into account these aspects, it is necessary to use the...
Enterprises invest in information system with the expectation that it will contribute to performance, and members of the organization must use information system for it to make a contribution. However, first-line and middle Managers' resistance to change and unwilling to use information systems have become the bottleneck in IT application. In this paper, the key effect factors of the first-line and...
In recent time, technology applications in different fields, especially Business Intelligence (BI) have been developed rapidly and considered to be one of the most significant uses of information technology with special position reserved. The application of BI systems provides organizations with a sense of superiority in the competitive environment. Despite many advantages, the companies applying...
Comparative and evaluative question answering (QA) systems provide objective answers to questions that involve comparisons and evaluations based on a quantifiable set of criteria. As evaluations involve inferences and computations, answers are not lifted from source text. This entails the need for correct semantic interpretation of comparative expressions, converting them to quantifiable criteria...
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