2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Introduction to the Business Analytics, Business Intelligence and Big Data
Minitrack
Robert Winter
Institute of Information Mgmt
University of St. Gallen
robert.winter@unisg.ch
The provision of the right data with appro-
priate quality according to the needs of deci-
sion makers or automated processes is cru-
cial for successful operations of companies
and government agencies. Management In-
formation Systems, Decision Support Sys-
tems, Executive Information Systems, inter-
active online analysis (OLAP), data mining,
dashboards and recently map reduce are ex-
amples for the historic advancement of busi-
ness analytics (BA) / business intelligence
(BI) concepts for the front-end, while data-
bases, data warehousing and recently ‘big
data’ are examples for the development of
the underlying technical infrastructure con-
cepts. The smart combination of task-
oriented front-end innovations and technol-
ogy-driven infrastructure innovations allows
for enhanced decision speed, more efficient
extracting, cleaning, and aggregating data
from source systems, maintaining and ana-
lyzing larger data sets, and demand-oriented
access to data. From an IS perspective, busi-
ness analytics, BI and ‘big data’ constitute a
dynamic, fascinating and highly relevant
field of research. This includes managerial
considerations (BI strategy, BI organization
and governance, BI value, data quality man-
agement, etc.), process-centric BI, and inter-
organizational aspects.
In 2013, the minitrack received 16 submis-
sions from which seven were accepted
(44%).
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Olivera Marjanovic Barbara H. Wixom
The University of Sydney McIntire School of Commerce
olivera.marjanovic@ The University of Virginia
sydney.edu.au bwixom@virginia.edu
Knabke and Olbrich use a literature review
to derive BI agility criteria.
Brooks, El-Gayar and Sarnikar review
existing BI maturity models to determine
their adequacy for use in the healthcare con-
text and present requirements for a
healthcare-specific maturity model.
Based on earlier research on BI maturity
models, Raber, Wortmann and Winter
propose situational BI maturity models that
can be adapted to certain context factors.
Mueller and Coppoolse investigate how
incentive systems influence information
quality in BI.
Mathrani and Mathrani investigate why
companies fail to dynamically create and
manage information that enables real-time
responses to business and process variations.
Han and Farn show that habit has a direct
effect on pervasive BI systems continued
usage and investigate how usage behavior is
moderated.
As an actual BA application, Wang,
Andoh-Baidoo and Sun analyze grant data
to determine factors that influence homeland
security funding.
We hope you will find this year’s selection
of papers interesting and relevant.
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