Benefits and challenges of business intelligence adoption in small and medium-sized enterprises

18th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Scholz, Patrick ^a   Schieder, Christian ^a   Kurze, Christian ^a   Gluchowski, Peter ^a   Boehringer, Martin ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business intelligence (BI); Cluster analysis; Exploratory factor analysis; IT adoption; Small and medium sized enterprises (SMES)

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORTS; EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; IT ADOPTION; KEY SUCCESS FACTORS; PERCEIVED BENEFITS; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84870634616     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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