Business Intelligence In Higher Education – A Unified Metadata Approach
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University System, Business Intelligence, Intranet, Metadata, Data IntegrationAbstract
Nowadays, the utilization of business intelligence (BI) in educational environments can be seen as a potential solution to foster educational data for better planning academic resources and performance. However, at no time in the past have educational institutions and universities faced so many challenges in gathering and integrating huge amounts of educational data from multiple, distributed and heterogeneous sources. In this context, this paper presents a metadata-based BI solution, aimed at defining and developing a BI architecture for academic domain. In our approach, a bridging metadata base and well-defined controlled vocabularies found a semantic basis for the integration of both database and non-database information. Moreover, corporate Intranet, with its accompanying management support functionalities, has been developed, playing the key role in transforming just-integrated information into business information crucial for the understanding of the academic environment and its future needs. Furthermore, a prototype of developed BI system in Hue University will be introduced, further emphasizing the potential of our approach in allowing educational organizations to gather, access and analyze corporate data sources for academic planning and decision-making.
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