Perspectives on Business Intelligence
Ng, Raymond T. / Mylopoulos, John / Pottinger, Rachel A / Tompa, Frank / Leung, Anthony / Arocena, Patricia C. / Barbosa, Denilson / Carenini, Giuseppe / Gomes, Luiz / Jou, Stephan / Yu, Eric / Milios, Evangelos / Miller, Renée J.
In the 1980s, traditional Business Intelligence (BI) systems focused on the delivery of reports that describe the state of business activities in the past, such as for questions like "How did our sales perform during the last quarter?" A decade later, there was a shift to more interactive content that presented how the business was performing at the present time, answering questions like "How are we doing right now?" Today the focus of BI user...