Includes abstract. / Includes bibliographical references. / Although real-time Business Intelligence (BI) environments overcome the setbacks of traditional BI, and offer a host of value adding benefits to organizations, their implementation has said to be hampered due to their technological complexities, and has required changes to the business environment, as well as the high costs required to put them in place. In addition, the justification of IT investments still remains a common problem as they provide many intangible benefits which are incompatible with traditional (financial) IT benefits measurement models. For this reason, the research set out to investigate and understand the technological components and organizational changes surrounding real-time BI in order to shed light on these issues. This study also aimed to further the understanding of how real-time BI can be justified as a prudent investment...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uct/oai:localhost:11427/12043 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Dobrev, Kiril Vladimirov |
| Contributors | Hart, Mike |
| Publisher | University of Cape Town, Faculty of Commerce, Department of Information Systems |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master Thesis, Masters, MCom |
| Format | application/pdf |
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