Business Entity Warehouse: A New Design Method for Decision Support Systems from Business Entities

Mounira Ben Abdallah, Imen Jellali, Nahla Haddar, Hanêne Ben-Abdallah

2016

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 provides 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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Ben Abdallah M., Jellali I., Haddar N. and Ben-Abdallah H. (2016). Business Entity Warehouse: A New Design Method for Decision Support Systems from Business Entities . In Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-194-6, pages 141-148. DOI: 10.5220/0005964401410148


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft-ea16,
author={Mounira Ben Abdallah and Imen Jellali and Nahla Haddar and Hanêne Ben-Abdallah},
title={Business Entity Warehouse: A New Design Method for Decision Support Systems from Business Entities},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={141-148},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005964401410148},
isbn={978-989-758-194-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2016)
TI - Business Entity Warehouse: A New Design Method for Decision Support Systems from Business Entities
SN - 978-989-758-194-6
AU - Ben Abdallah M.
AU - Jellali I.
AU - Haddar N.
AU - Ben-Abdallah H.
PY - 2016
SP - 141
EP - 148
DO - 10.5220/0005964401410148