An architecture for ad-hoc and collaborative business intelligence

The success of organizations or business networks depends on fast and well-founded decisions taken by the relevant people in their specific area of responsibility. To enable timely and well-founded decisions, it is often necessary to perform ad-hoc analyses in a collaborative manner involving domain experts, line-of-business managers, key suppliers or customers. Current Business Intelligence (BI) solutions fail to meet the challenges of ad-hoc and collaborative decision support, slowing down and hurting organizations. The main goal of our envisioned system, which will be designed and implemented in a future research project, is to realize a highly scalable and flexible platform for collaborative, ad-hoc BI over large data sets. This will be achieved by developing methodologies, concepts and an infrastructure to enable an information self-service for business users and collaborative decision making over high-volume data sources within and across organizations. Categories and Subject ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: EDBTW
• Authors: Henrike Berthold, Philipp Rösch, Stefan Zöller, Felix Wortmann, Alessio Carenini, Stuart Campbell, Pascal Bisson, Frank Strohmaier
• Keywords: Ad-hoc, Collaborative Decision, EDBTW 2010, Software Engineering, Well-founded Decisions