A SOA-Driven Business Intelligence Architecture

Lee-Kwun Chan1, Yee-Wai Sim1 and William Yeoh2

1Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Perak, Malaysia

2School of Information Systems, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia

Copyright © 2011 Lee-Kwun Chan, Yee-Wai Sim and William Yeoh. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License unported 3.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that original work is properly cited.

Abstract

A business intelligence architecture comprises of different unique components to collect, transform, analyze and present the structured and unstructured raw data in simple formats to assist decision makers in making timely decisions. The introduction of service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables reusable services which are accessible over a network on demand. However, there is still a lack of academic literatures on the business intelligence architecture with service-oriented concept. Based upon various references on BI architectures from major vendors, a novel BI architecture that is built on service-oriented concept is presented and described in this paper. The proposed service-oriented architecture enables enterprises to deploy a more agile, flexible, cheaper, reusable, reliable and responsive BI applications in supporting decision making process.

Keywords: enterprise business intelligence, service-oriented architecture, business intelligence architecture
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