Business intelligence in the cloud: A case of Pakistan

Author

Khan, Surat ; Zhang, Bin ; Khan, Faizullah ; Chen, Siqi

Author_Institution

Sch. of Econ. & Manage. Sci., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

15-17 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

536

Lastpage

540

Abstract

To predict the market trends, to improve enterprise performance, and for the smarter business outcomes, Business intelligence (BI) "an integrated set of tools, technologies and programmed products that are used to collect, integrate, analyze and make data available", become the basic need for the businesses. Due Economic, technological and human resource constraints, the SMEs are not able to achieve the benefits of BI. In this paper we proposes, firstly Bl-in-Cloud computing Model for SMEs, to meet their goals for profitability, revenue, cost reduction, and risk management, Secondly the regional telecom operator as Bl-in-Cloud platform and Service provider, under the supervision of regulatory authorities, with the support of government and concerned bodies.

Keywords

cloud computing; competitive intelligence; profitability; small-to-medium enterprises; Bl-in-cloud computing model; Pakistan; business intelligence; cost reduction; economic constraint; human resource constraint; market trend prediction; profitability; regional telecom operator; revenue; risk management; service provider; technological constraint; Bismuth; Cloud computing; Data mining; Organizations; Security; Standards organizations; Business Intelligence; Cloud Computing; Pakistan; Small and Medium sized Enterprises;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems (CCIS), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-203-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCIS.2011.6045126

Filename

6045126