Effective Business Intelligence Systems.

Thierauf, Robert J.

ISBN 10: 1567203701 / ISBN 13: 9781567203707

Verlag: Quorum Books, 2001

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392p. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers NGY24083

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Effective Business Intelligence Systems.

Verlag: Quorum Books

Erscheinungsdatum: 2001

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

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Inhaltsangabe:

One step above knowledge management systems are business intelligence systems. Their purpose is to give decision makers a better understanding of their organization's operations, and thus another way to outmaneuver the competition, by helping to find and extract the meaningful relationships, trends, and correlations that underlie the organization's operations and ultimately contribute to its success. Thierauf also shows that by tying critical success factors and key performance indicators into business intelligence systems, an organization's most important financial ratios can also be improved. Comprehensive and readable, Thierauf's book will advance the knowledge and skills of all information systems providers and users. It will also be useful as a text in upper-level courses covering a wide range of topics essential to an understanding of executive business systems generally, and specifically their creation and management. The theme underlying Thierauf's unique text is that a thorough understanding of a company's operations is crucial if the company is to be moved to a higher level of competitive advantage. Although data warehousing, data mining, the Internet, the World Wide Web, and other electronic aids have been in place for at least a decade, it is the remarkable and unique capability of business intelligence systems to utilize them that has in turn revolutionized the ability of decision makers to find, accumulate, organize, and access a wider range of information than was ever before possible. Effective business intelligence systems give decision makers a means to keep their fingers on the pulse of their businesses every step of the way. From this it follows that they are thus able to develop new, more workable means to cope with the competition successfully. Comprehensive and readable, Thierauf's book will advance the knowledge and skills of all information systems providers and users. It will also be useful as a text in upper-level courses covering a wide range of topics essential to an understanding of executive business systems generally, and specifically their creation and management.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

ROBERT J. THIERAUF is Professor of Information Systems, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio./e He was formerly a staff accountant (CPA) and consultant at Coopers & Lybrand. This is his thirty-first book and thirteenth for Quorum, all on various facets of information systems and their mananagement.