Business dashboards, as a part of business intelligence systems, are the primary key to fostering a culture of performance and sound management while enhancing organizational decision-making processes. It is beneficial to get an instant visual representation that helps direct attention to areas of concern, gather relevant valuable information from various departments and databases both inside and outside the organization, and then redirect this knowledge in the form of lessons learned and best practices for its beneficiaries.

Some dashboards may also be able to apply knowledge to achieve significant results in predicting the future, thereby helping to maintain focus and promote knowledge-based decision-making. Here, business organizations expect the development of business intelligence systems to yield numerous benefits, ranging from reducing the time and effort in executing their operations to new knowledge discoveries that enable them to succeed in their competitive environment.

However, many business intelligence systems in these organizations have failed to achieve the expected return on investment. The most notable reasons for this are a lack of experience and skill in implementing the appropriate architecture for these systems, including various business dashboards based on BI. There are several ways to build a business dashboard architecture, as well as various options for these dashboards regarding what they can and cannot do. Whether business organizations seek to build or acquire business dashboards, they need to understand the implications of designing the architecture of these systems.

Therefore, this ten-chapter book is presented to the Arab reader to introduce a modern concept in management information systems: business dashboards. The first chapter focuses on an extensive reading of the heritage of business intelligence systems as the foundation for the concept of dashboards, including the birth of the term 'business intelligence,' its historical development, and its fundamentals, such as its concept, organizational structures, and its importance as a new function in organizational technology. The second chapter addresses the architectural philosophy of business intelligence systems, focusing on data integration techniques as the core of these systems' architecture. It then clarifies the concept of BI maturity, which provides an in-depth look at the meaning of an integrated BI architecture. The chapter concludes with a detailed explanation of the most important components of an integrated business intelligence architecture.

Weight: 0.86 kg
Dimensions: 17 x 24 cm
ISBN: 978-9957-12-687-2