Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems (CCIS), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-203-5
DOI :
10.1109/CCIS.2011.6045126
