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Development of internal management information system in Dolphin Consulting, s.r.o.
Církovský, Tomáš ; Maryška, Miloš (advisor) ; Kasl, Tomas (referee)
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.
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Comparison of commercial and Open Source Business Intelligence reporting tools
Bednář, Jan ; Slánský, David (advisor) ; Pour, Jan (referee)
Diploma thesis deals with comparison of commercial and Open Source Business Intelligence (BI) reporting tools. The main aim of the thesis is to provide a list of BI reporting tools and their further comparison. Evaluation is based on a set of criteria. Every criterium has its assigned value that represents the importance of the criterium in a given group. The same procedure is applied on the groups. The final evaluation is based on defined values of these groups. The output of the thesis is a table structured into five parts according to defined groups of criteria. The second part of the thesis walks the reader through the practical showcase of implementation one of the selected tools that is SAP Business Objects Enterprise 4.0. At the beginning, there is a description of report proposal that contains graphical design and functionality requirements. Next part shows the whole process in detail.
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Analysis of possibilities and limitations of BI tool Report Studio
Čapková, Lenka ; Pour, Jan (advisor) ; Janda, Radim (referee)
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.
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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE IMPLEMENTATION IN SOFTWARE COMPANY
Janů, Martin ; Pour, Jan (advisor) ; Závodný, Martin (referee)
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.
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Business Intelligence with SAP Systems
Hrnko, Petr ; Basl, Josef (advisor) ; Pavlů, Petr (referee)
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.
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