Planning and reporting solutions in many companies still suffer from poor data quality, are insufficiently integrated and are often time and cost intensive. Step by step, this practice-oriented book shows how things can be done differently. It systematically shows how modern planning and...

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...

This article describes how in today's hyper-competitive environment, business leaders around the world are using analytics technologies to create business values, and to gain a better understanding of their customer's needs and wants. However, traditional business analytics are undergoing major...

The past few years have seen an explosion in the business use of analytics. Corporations around the world are using analytical tools to gain a better understanding of their customer's needs and wants. Predictive analytics has become an increasingly hot topic in analytics landscape as more...

The remarkable opportunities of discovering interesting knowledge from Big Data can be exploited in the Cultural Heritage (CH) domain, where Social Data Mining could advantage cultural organizations and operators with strategical elements for enjoying and attracting and enjoy visitors, as well...

This article analyzes the recent literature in the search for the fundamentals of business intelligence (BI). The literature review covers the overview of BI; BI and technology acceptance model (TAM); BI, Big Data, and social media; the elements of BI; the characteristics of BI; enterprise...

Text mining is a powerful form of business intelligence that is used increasingly to inform organizational decisions. Current text mining algorithms rely heavily on the lexical, syntactic, structural, and semantic features of text to extract meaning and insight for decision making. Although...