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...

Oil and gas industries archive volumes of heterogeneous data. These companies, by virtue of their diverse operations, comprise of complicated organizational structure. The nature of organizational set-up with several operational units, often results with communication barriers among operational...

1. Data warehouse architectures : practices and trends / Xuegang Huang -- 2. Improving expressive power in modeling data warehouse and OLAP applications / Elzbieta Malinowski -- 3. From conventional to multiversion data warehouse : practical issues / Khurram Shahzad -- 4. Compression schemes of...

Data warehouses have been developed to answer the increasing demands of quality information required by the top managers and economic analysts of organizations. Their importance in now a day business area is unanimous recognized, being the foundation for developing business intelligence systems....