Quantifying and designing the cost pool generated by Business Intelligence and Analytics (BI&A) would improve cost transparency and invoicing processes, allowing a fairer, more exact allocation of costs to service consumers. Yet there is still no method for determining BI&A costs to provide a...

The Agri-Food sector is facing global challenges. The first challenge is feeding a world population that will reach 9.3 billion people in 2050, according to UN projections. The second challenge is the demand from consumers for high-quality products obtained through more sustainable, safe and...

Authors of this paper were directly involved in several data warehousing and business intelligence projects that were carried out in companies in Croatia. Based on the experience from those projects, this paper presents how those solutions were implemented — and more importantly, how they were...

Strategic decision-making is one of the most important criteria for organizational success. Therefore, it is vital to have a well-developed decision making process in place. However, one of the greatest challenges facing organizations today is making important and timely business decisions. The...

The process of collecting information is worthless if it doesn't benefit the firm or serve any purpose. Management information systems(MIS) involve the use of set of protocols which are applied on data/information to generate intelligent business solutions. This study reviews the role of MIS in...

Much of the research in data mining and knowledge discovery has focused on the development of efficient data mining algorithms. Researchers and practitioners have developed data mining techniques to solve diverse real-world data mining problems. But there is no single source that identifies...

The tremendous growth of data of all forms has led to an increase in research on the uses and outcomes of Business Intelligence and Analytics (BI&A). Much of the current research however, focuses on the technological aspects. The process of decision making with data is treated more or less like...

In the German healthcare industry, Business Intelligence systems play a crucial role. For one major health insurance company (discussed here as an alias - AK Healthcare), the deployment of Business Intelligence applications has supported sustained growth in turnover and market share in the past...

In today's rapidly-changing business environment, the need for useful business analytics is vital for organizations, not only to succeed, but also to survive. Traditional enterprise systems have disabilities to meet the expectations of organizational decision makers in the competitive area. In...

Modern business intelligence systems depend highly on high quality data. The core of data quality management is to identify all possible sources of data quality problems. To achieve this goal, an extensive metadata infrastructure is the most promising solution. Through theoretical metadata model...