A research on the use of business intelligence for academic research
ISSN: 0741-9058
Article publication date: 4 July 2018
Issue publication date: 7 August 2018
Abstract
Purpose
At the moment, business intelligence (BI) is known as the way for analyzing data in an organization. Simple search in the literature shows that there are many papers which discuss about BI applications and related matters. In addition, there are different approaches and tools that support using BI in organizations. This paper aims to focus on the use of BI tools for academic applications, and it describes how the academic area will benefit from using BI.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper is based on using BI tools and other library studies.
Findings
A process for using BI tools in academic applications has been presented. Also, two cases are stated about activities of e-learning participants and literature analysis, for which BI tools are used to analyze data and simplify difficult tasks.
Originality/value
This paper shows how BI tools can be used for research and academic applications.
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Acknowledgements
The authors take the pleasure of thanking the DBxtra company for providing a license of their software for doing this research.
Conflict of interest: Authors are not affiliated to DBxtra company, but this company provided license of its tool for authors of this research.
Citation
Dadkhah, M. and Lagzian, M. (2018), "A research on the use of business intelligence for academic research", Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 35 No. 3, pp. 10-12. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-03-2018-0016
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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