Selecting Business Intelligence Solutions using Requirements Engineering
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
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2019
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Carbell, Anna
Mann, Andreas
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Business Intelligence (BI) is a collection of processes, technologies, and tools that
aims to provide organizational value by triggering actions and decisions through
well-presented information extracted from company data. Existing BI solutions on
the market can be used to present the information. There is, however, no guidance in
how to select an existing BI solution but there are many approaches to requirements
engineering (RE) in BI which aim to build a BI solution from scratch. Therefore,
this research investigated if existing methods for RE in BI also could be useful for
selecting an existing BI solution based on the requirements the methods produced.
The experience from doing so was used to understand what an appropriate method
to select a BI solution could be.
The results showed that the existing methods for RE in BI could be used but that
they gave weak support in selecting an existing BI solution. Hence, there were more
appropriate ways to select BI solutions that were recommended instead of the existing
methods. Based on the lessons learned from applying existing methods in parallel
and from studying BI solutions, a new method was designed with the purpose of
selecting an existing BI solution. The new method consisted of five phases; a prestudy,
feasibility study, market analysis, requirements elicitation, and BI solution
selection (see Section 5.5). The new method was deemed to be a more appropriate
way to select a BI solution than existing methods since it produced requirements and
criteria in a hybrid approach that could be used to distinguish between BI solutions.
The research was carried out on a real case at a global manufacturing company with
headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden during Spring 2019.
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requirements engineering , business intelligence , requirements elicitation , KPI , BI solution