Critical success factors for implementing business intelligence systems in small and medium enterprises on the example of upper Silesia, Poland

Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages 129-150

  Olszak, Celina M ^a   Ziemba, Ewa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS IN KATOWICE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Business Intelligence; Critical success factors; Small and medium enterprises

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

BUSINESS ANALYSTS; BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS; CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR; CRITICAL THINKING; IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS; INDUCTIVE REASONING; SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE; STATISTICAL DATAS;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84862019547     PISSN: 15551229     EISSN: 15551237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.28945/1584     Document Type: Article

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