Knowledge acquisition is a frequent bottleneck in business intelligent systems, and knowledge extraction from trained artificial neural networks (ANNs) provides an excellent way for explaining the functioning of a business connectionist system. This is important for ANNs to gain a wider degree...

Getting the performance in audit work currently requires some additional conditions related to the multitude of issues to be analyzed for the same problem, numerous data sources, quality, speed, flexibility, high power of suggestion and automation in reporting activity. This paper presents using...

As data creation, production, storage and availability have increased, one's ability to make sense out of that data has obviously decreased. So it is certain why many enterprises have confronted so many problems when trying to consolidate decision-making data from multiple sources.That explains...

In order to work-out with a global organization we need to realize the difficulty of determining the response to some simple business questions using the existing technology. In this given context, Business Intelligence is more than technology or a business management approach becoming an...

When it comes to develop a Decision Support System that must enhance nowadays Business Intelligence concepts and reporting facilities, the job could be easier if not trying to "reinvent the wheel'. In order to do so, this paper actually gives some practical examples of how to use a simple...

Nowadays when many technical acronymic words with the radical "system" invade the theory and practice of information systems is essential not to let ourselves tricked by their fashionable and tasteful appearance and think of what they really are. The main purpose of this paper is a theoretical...

Given the harsh realities, many organizations are taking an urgent second look at the efficiency of core business processes and technology systems and as groups of people, they are working together on a common undertaking, regardless of their physical location, across countries, synchronously or...

The Knowledge Age is in fact much more than a frivol assumption. A simple proof is related to the actual treatment of information. As data creation, production, storage and availability have increased, one's ability to make sense out of that data has obviously decreased. So there is a potential...

Historically speaking, BI and GIS have followed different demands as development and also as implementation. But today, when a customer requests integrated applications expanding throughout the organization, BI and GIS application must work together. In order to facilitate this, standards and...

The paper tries to emphasize the usual meanings of this collocation introduced together with the title. So it starts from the globalization phenomenon and continues with some usages and trends for business intelligence applications within this context. The focus is on the further developments in...