A SOA-based model for business intelligence environments

Business intelligence application collects, transforms, analyzes and presents valuable information to assist enterprise decision makers in making timely and informed decisions. However, there is still a lack of academic literatures on the BI architecture with service-oriented approach. Based upon various reference BI architectures from major BI vendors, a novel BI architecture that is built on service-oriented concept is presented and described in this paper. The proposed service-oriented architecture enables enterprises to deploy more flexible and reliable BI applications to a greater number of business stakeholders in supporting decision making process.