Seamless User-Interface for Business Intelligence

The capturing and exploitation of user data within a Business Intelligence (BI) lifecycle involves the interaction between the human user - respectively teams - and systems. A large amount of BI-content is captured via structured documents. At first glance, the lifecycle of these structured documents stays purely digital in the future. Our research is based on the hypothesis, that the traditional paper based documents may serve an important role in todays and the future BI-content lifecycle. Paper as a medium is intuitive and ubiquitously used for capturing content. Within a BI-lifecycle, the transition from paper documents to digital content and vice versa is a challenge. Instead of traditional OCR-approaches within BI, it striked us that a seamless interaction between paper based forms and structured digital content would intuitively fit the working style of many people. Moreover, such a seamless transition between physical and digital content may increase the effectiveness and impact of "the document" at the heart of the BI-lifecycle in organizations.