Dramatic increasing of amount of data in running a business has been consireded a typical phenomenon of the last decade. This fact, however, has its impact on the business planning and decision making. The area, which deals with this problematics, is called Business Intelligence (BI). The problem lies in the implementation of applications directing to the BI, because it is often oriented only on isolated projects, so they cause only partial effect. In such cases, BI cannot fulfil the expected role, but still preserves the negatives instead. By saying negatives, it is meant: complicated searching for analytical outputs, significant dete-rioration of their output data, cost increase in administation of BI systems, and others. The solution can represented by integration of partial BI systems and by transfer of their BI metadata into a single informational system, serving as an "entering gate" for all the business workers. From the whole company perspective, there exist also benefits in the metadata managament, such as: determination of quality and usage of reports, prolonging of the life cycle, cooperative forming of the knowledge basis, consolidation of the terms in the business, more efficient way of browsing in the system and comprehensibility of analytical system's outputs. The aim of this diploma thesis is formation of a metadata presentation and its realization into a preselected information system, together with meeting of the advantages resulting from applying business metadata.

There are two different types of platforms in the world of business intelligence - commercial and open source. The main objective of this thesis is to compare two representatives of both worlds - IBM Cognos BI version 10 and Pentaho BI Suite 4.1. This thesis is focused on the theoretical comparison of platforms according to defined benchmarks. Practical application of both platforms is described on example of model company MATASTAV. In the introduction the main topic, objectives and benefits are defined. Then it is necessary to describe expressions that may occur on following pages. The initial situation is defined by example of company MATASTAV. Both platforms are introduced in the next part and then are defined benchmarks with selected method of comparison. Platforms are theoretically and practically compared on following parts of this thesis. Conclusion contains results from both comparisons. Major benefit of this thesis is based on the practical comparison of both platforms on the example company MATASTAV and gathering of personal experiences and problems solved.

This master thesis focuses on the opinions and barriers from the BI tool in Report Studio as the part of IBM Cognos BI for the creation of reports. The aim of this thesis is to analyze all the functions of this tool and simplify that experience for other users. The theoretical section of this thesis introduces Business Intelligence as well as the product IBM Cognos BI itself divided into individual components. The final part of thesis introduces and compares similar products available on the market from the competitors. The practical part consists of analysis of Report Studio tool functions followed by applied criteria. In this part, the strengths and weaknesses of Report Studio are mentioned along with proposals of procedures regarding work efficiency using this tool. This section also lists nonstandard examples collected from the client's experience followed by the exact procedures using solution default functions of Report Studio and script language JavaScript.

This thesis deals with the management approach in performance management, today known world by the concept of Corporate Performance Management. CPM describes the relationship to Business Intelligence and methodologies, processes, metrics and technologies that together form the concept. There is also a description of CPM applications which cover the five most commonly deployed areas. The second part is devoted to what-if analysis that is one of several methodologies which are part of the CPM package. It also contains the list of competing tools that cover this area. The following hypothetical example of putting what-if analysis, aimed at resolving issues of fictitious company, related to costs, revenue and profit. Example is based on technology developed at IBM Cognos TM1. During the example solutions are presented with all the basic functionality that this technology offers.

The aim of this thesis is to implement Business Intelligence solution in the investment banking sector. The first part of this thesis is focused on general use of Business Intelligence in the banking sector and future developments in this area. Further it defines the objectives and reasons for the implementation of BI in the areas of investment banking. This part also explains basic terms used in investment banking which occur in the thesis and introduces a project in which the Business Intelligence is implemented. The second part focuses on determination of requirements and their analysis from which the data warehouse design is derived. Another part deals with the implementation of the designed data warehouse and ETL packages for loading the data. Further the tool in which the reports are created is described by exemplary implementation of the reports. In the last part of this thesis the implemented BI solution is evaluated by the users.

Diplomová práce se zabývá využitím aplikační a integrační platformy SAP NetWeaver 7.0 v oblasti business intelligence a data warehousingu. Hlavním cílem a obsahem této práce je(1) Posoudit, zda je společnost SAP schopna díky akvizici firmy Business Objects splnit své cíle (viz kapitola 5.2.1) a vzájemnou integrací business intelligence (BI) nástrojů posílit svou pozici na tomto trhu a odstranit hlavní nedostatky řešení SAP NetWeaver BI (viz kapitola 4.2). (2) Vzájemně, na základě předem zvolených parametrů, porovnat business intelligence nástroje společnosti SAP a Business Objects s konkurenčními produkty firmy Cognos. Na základě porovnání pak vytvořit hodnocení. (3) Zmapovat pozici SAPu na trhu business intelligence řešení a vytvořit vodítko pro konzultanta, který se zajímá o možnosti uplatnění v této oblasti.

Diploma work is focused on implementation Business Intelligence applications in medium software company in order to support Corporate Performance Management. It creates suitable metrics portfolio according to Balanced Scorecard methodology. Implementation part presents development of the reporting system on the Cognos 8 BI platform in the current software company environment. The system evaluates the metrics every month. Metrics values are based on current data in transactional system. Diploma work has two parts: theory and reporting project. Theoretical part deals with BI system architecture in general. It is focused on reporting issues. It analyses typical usage and expected benefits of BI applications used for Corporate Performance Management in order to specify applications that are suitable for implementation in the company environment. Next issue of the theoretical part deals with IS development methodology that can be used in Business Intelligence projects. According to chosen criteria and weights with regard to this project it evaluates the best methodology for this project. It will be used in the next part. Practical part reporting project is both about development issues and usage the BI application from the end user view. This example provides information about activities, which are necessary for this development from initial study to testing phase. Project scope includes analysis of the environment, analysis of used metrics, design new metrics, metrics selection and implementation on Cognos platform. This example presents analytical usage of the Metric Studio tool and dymamical reports usage from the manager's view. The final part brings together critical success factors (CSF), which appear in this project.

Main goal of this master thesis is to create Management Information System for company Dolphin consulting, s.r.o. based on technologies available within its infrastructure. Next goal is conduct preliminary verification of the created Management Information System. Generally, the Management Information System is created in accordance with resources including but not limited to Business Intelligence, Management Information Systems literature and experiences of the author. The most important assets of this thesis are creating of the system for Dolphin consulting, s.r.o. and initial verification of created system for its further development and highlight issues that arise. This master thesis is divided into two logical parts. The first part is purely theoretical and describes the issues of data warehousing according to Kimball and Inmon, OLAP Cubes and Management Information Systems. Practical part of thesis describes implementation of Business Intelligence tools as a part of created Management Information System in company Dolphin consulting, s.r.o. At the end of this part is the above stated preliminary verification of the Management Information System with list of recommendations for improving the system.

The thesis deals with problematics of tools marked as Self Service Business Intelligence (SSBI) which is paid close attention by its users as well as producers due to expected progressive growth of this trend. Two products are evaluated: SAS Visual Analytics and IBM Cognos Analytics, both tools are evaluated by their extent of user´s autonomy and support of data visualization. Basic principles and concepts connected to the area of business intelligence are defined in theoretical part of the thesis. The problematics of data visualization is introduced and trend of self-service business intelligence is discussed with analyzing its benefits as well as restrictions. Technological factors which helped to fast development of SSBI are mentioned as well. A methodology has been created within practical part of the thesis. It is enforceable for any other tool from the family of SSBI and it is possible to assess the extent of support within observed categories through this methodology: Using information, Creation of information, Creation of sources and Visualization. A set of criteria on basis of which the evaluator can create evaluation form corresponding to his/her needs was defined for each of the stated categories. Usability of the methodology is illustratively demonstrated at mutual comparison of chosen modules of both tools while those parts are sufficiently described before the evaluation itself.

Thesis is devoted to current trends in approaching cost allocation developed in IBM Cognos TM1 software. Concept, which was originally elaborated in my bachelor thesis, has recently experienced restrictions caused by increasing requirements on analytical tools and information they provide. Goal of the thesis is therefore to analyse causalities of emerging weaknesses, design and develop optimalized and reengineered solution answering current demands. Reqarding the quantitative evaluation of attained results, the thesis is extended with analysis of frameworks and standards dedicated to benchmarking of OLAP tools and their synthesis into own complex model. Proposed model specializes on measuring multiple OLAP applications across four main perspectives including performance, development, usability and financial benefits. Attained results prove, that reengineered model is faster, data richer, easier to use and appropriate for any organization with structured and algorithmic approach to cost allocation. Second half of the thesis focuses on extending the presentation layer to web browser, designing and developing of custom visualizations for most usual analytic tasks. Considering the absence of advanced application interface in IBM Cognos TM1, the thesis also includes theoretical analysis of current trends in API development and design of concept allowing communication and data transportation between applications and TM1 server. In the concluding section of the thesis, proposed concept is materialized into universal library developed in PHP and applied to novel allocation model. Leveraging the library, two exemplary interfaces for allocator operation and data consumption are implemented. Gained knowledge can serve as basis for development of additional components communicationg with TM1 in variety of projects or theoretical framework for API implementation in general.