The advent of information and communication technology (ICT) provides opportunities for employees with offices in geographically dispersed locations to communicate, share and collaborate on projects to achieve common business goals. This paper describes the experiences of two Romanian telecom...

A collaborative enterprise is a more agile organization. The ability of employees to quickly share their insights contributes to an organization's collective knowledge, and has a direct impact on its success. Successful companies continually seek and refine ways to make effective use of their...

The debate is developed based on the following considerations: 1 - Business Intelligence (BI) is unanimous considered the art of gaining business advantage from data; therefore BI systems and infrastructures must integrate disparate data sources into a single coherent framework for real-time...

Business Intelligence (BI) represents the ability to look into the core of a business, in order to fundament the most effective and profitable decisions. An operational BI system sustains daily activities through the following functionalities: real-time informing, secured access to information,...

A key to survival in the business world is being able to analyze, plan and react to changing business conditions as fast as possible. With multidimensional models the managers can explore information at different levels of granularity and the decision makers at all levels can quickly respond to...

If an organization is to achieve its goals in the current "Information Age", the work of managers must be supported by high quality information. Systems that process organizational performance data into managerial information have either multidimensional or relational data structures. This paper...

On-line transaction processing systems (OLTP) is profoundly different from dimensional data/warehouse, the basis for open decision support systems. Both OLTP and datawarehouse systems are greatly concerned with data consistency However OLTP consistency is microscopic. The point of transaction...