Application of business intelligence to the power system process security

Nowadays, the companies have a growing need for timely and reliable information for operative and strategic decision-making. Companies have understood the importance of enforcing achievements of the goals defined by their business strategies through business intelligence concepts. This paper describes the design and development of business intelligence tools applied to industrial security. The goal is to have available and timely information to make better decisions, to reduce the number of accidents and incidents. The dashboards show a clear and simple way the main indicators of security process. Also, shows the relationship between indicators to determine which may be the attitude possible that caused the accident. The BI tool may be used in the future to other Electric Power Utility processes.