Historically speaking, BI and GIS have followed different demands as development and also as implementation. But today, when a customer requests integrated applications expanding throughout the organization, BI and GIS application must work together. In order to facilitate this, standards and...

Beyond knowledge experience always stays. But experience frequently resides in historical data combined into information, theorems, decisional models, ideas and many other invisible intellectual assets. The way we mange this could be the essence of the knowledge management. As said, decisional...

The decision support applications available on today market use to combine the decision analysis of historical databased on On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) products or spreadsheet pivot tables with some new reporting facilities as alerts or key performance indicators available in portal...

This article shows most of the E-connotations when approaching the Business Intelligence (BI) field not just as methodology but also as practical implementations meant to serve as a support for organizational decisions. In the last part of the paper the focus is moved to nowadays technological...

When it comes to develop a Decision Support System that must enhance nowadays Business Intelligence concepts and reporting facilities, the job could be easier if not trying to "reinvent the wheel'. In order to do so, this paper actually gives some practical examples of how to use a simple...

Nowadays when many technical acronymic words with the radical "system" invade the theory and practice of information systems is essential not to let ourselves tricked by their fashionable and tasteful appearance and think of what they really are. The main purpose of this paper is a theoretical...

In order to practice on decision making with students in simulation rooms we did some tests and we have implemented a working scenario considering some conditions imposed by the space, software particularities and so on. The bottom line is that starting both from existing theory and pragmatic...