Business intelligence systems: A comparative analysis

WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 612-621

  Dell'Aquila, Carlo ^a   Di Tria, Francesco ^a   Lefons, Ezio ^a   Tangorra, Filippo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Business Intelligence platform; Data mart; Data warehouse; Functional size measurement; OLAP system

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DATA WAREHOUSES;

ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENTS; BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE; BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM; BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DATA MART; DATA WAREHOUSE; EVALUATION CRITERIA; FUNCTIONAL COMPLEXITY; FUNCTIONAL SIZE MEASUREMENT; INFORMATION DELIVERY; MEASUREMENT METHODS; OLAP QUERIES; OLAP SYSTEM; OLAP SYSTEMS;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 48849097309     PISSN: 17900832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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