Investigating the application of real-time business intelligence and facilitating its justification through a proposed conceptual model

Although real-time Business Intelligence (BI) environments overcome the setbacks of traditional BI, and offer a host of value adding benefits to organizations, their implementation has said to be hampered due to their technological complexities, and has required changes to the business environment, as well as the high costs required to put them in place. In addition, the justification of IT investments still remains a common problem as they provide many intangible benefits which are incompatible with traditional (financial) IT benefits measurement models. For this reason, the research set out to investigate and understand the technological components and organizational changes surrounding real-time BI in order to shed light on these issues. This study also aimed to further the understanding of how real-time BI can be justified as a prudent investment...

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Information Systems

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• Dobrev, Kiril Vladimirov

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Hart, Mike

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12043

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12043