Strategic Models for Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence (BI) promises a range of technologies for using information to ensure compliance to strategic and tactical objectives, as well as government laws and regulations. These technologies can be used in conjunction with conceptual models of business objectives, processes and situations (aka business schemas) to drive strategic decision-making about opportunities and threats etc. This paper focuses on three key concepts for strategic business models -situation, influence and indicator -and how they are used for strategic analysis. The semantics of these concepts are defined using a state-ofthe-art upper ontology (DOLCE+). We also propose a method for building a business schema, and demonstrate alternative ways of formal analysis of the schema based on existing tools for goal and probabilistic reasoning.