Adapting an Enterprise Architecture for Business Intelligence

Business intelligence (BI) projects have the goal to implement suitable tools for decision support and to integrate them with existing data sources in a company. They have therefore been on CIOs agendas for several years and there are still a lot of BI projects to come. Despite this fact, however, still the majority of BI projects fail to deliver the full benefit for the business that was expected. One factor why such projects are likely to fail is the lack of communication and common understanding of the project by the BI project team and the business departments. In this research, a modelling technique has been implemented that allows to model both the BI project elements as well as the business model in one comprehensive and easily understandable model, which can help to facilitate the communication between the stakeholders of a BI project. The modelling notation has been evaluated against real-world case studies by conducting interviews, which have shown that the implemented modelling technique could indeed improve the project results. An extended version of this paper is available under [1].