A great challenge in nowadays superior education is to anticipate a certain behavior of a student: request for additional assistance, enrollment in a particular study program, exam promotion rate, mean value of grades, transfer risk, etc. Many institutions can better deal with these student and...

The ciphering is a security technique used to protect information the way it could not be theoretically understood by any unauthorized person that tries to intercept it as stored or transmitted data. But the time and the deciphering machine are critical factors in order to practically find out...

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 Business Intelligence instruments and final solutions bring new information to their users, under the form of multidimensional analysis, statistics and forecasting, dynamic queries, analyses and reports. Thus BI products will essentially vary as cost, capacity to integrate as many as...

Beyond knowledge experience always stays. But experience frequently resides in historical data combined into information, theorems, decisional models, ideas and many other invisible intellectual assets. The way we mange this could be the essence of the knowledge management. As said, decisional...

The decision support applications available on today market use to combine the decision analysis of historical databased on On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) products or spreadsheet pivot tables with some new reporting facilities as alerts or key performance indicators available in portal...

Nowadays many Decision Support Applications tend to combine the multi-criteria decision analysis of historical data with new reporting facilities as alerts and some corresponding to key performance indicators that describe so well a new field and approach called Business Intelligence. Moreover...

The main purpose of this paper is to explain the arguments that stand for video content presentation, as a teaching method with high results especially for some technical disciplines related to Business Information Systems (BIS).Our previous work was based on a "so called" practice of image...

Combining some examples with the recognized purpose of both data visualization and business intelligence the paper tries to emphasize: advantages, lacks, limits, actualities, and potential trends in this field. Most of the figures are the result of practical tests, except the last one which is a...

The paper tries to identify some causes and implications of the web phenomena into the decision making field. It also includes examples in order to better justify the ideas. The literature and the practice are very rich in examples of Decision Support Systems (DSS) and Business Intelligence...