Authors:
Mounira Ben Abdallah
1
;
Imen Jellali
1
;
Nahla Haddar
1
and
Hanêne Ben-Abdallah
2
Affiliations:
1
University of Sfax, Tunisia
;
2
King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
Keyword(s):
Warehouse Design, Business Entity Warehouse, Business Entity, Business Entity View.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Business Analytics
;
Cardiovascular Technologies
;
Computing and Telecommunications in Cardiology
;
Data Engineering
;
Decision Support Systems
;
Decision Support Systems, Remote Data Analysis
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Current business intelligence applications and most researches on enterprise performance analysis focus on one part of the business in isolation, the data produced from either the information system or the business process. One the one hand, such single perspective of the correlated data may produce incomplete or biased results. On the other hand, the integration of both data categories faces several challenges inherent to the differences in their semantics, structures and separate storage. To overcome these challenges, we herein propose the concept of business entity warehouse which builds a decision support system based on business entities. The business entity concept was introduced in the information system domain to bring together business operations and business data in a natural way. The business entity warehouse we introduce offers an integrated view of the four business perspectives of the enterprise (functional, behavioural, informational and organizational), and it provide
s for the analysis of the influence of the business process on the transactional data and vice versa. This paper presents a method to construct business entity warehouses from business entities extracted from IS and business process models.
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