Today business intelligence (BI) systems, which provide management with decision-supportive information, are considered to be a prerequisite for organizational success. In contrast to the operation of BI, BI system management is still an emerging topic in information systems (IS) research. Even though the cost management of BI systems is highly relevant for practice, the field is widely unexplo...

The paper examines how a retail organisation transformed from home-made Business Intelligence (BI) to a mature BI-based organisation, over a decade long period of time. We engaged in an Action Research (AR) inquiry where the transformation was explored through the first-hand experiences of one of the co-authors. Concepts from the organisational learning theory are used to analyse the organisati...

Although many IT and business managers today may be lured into business intelligence (BI) investments by the promise of predictive analytics and emerging BI trends, creating an enterprise-wide BI capability is a journey that takes time. This article describes Norfolk Southern Railway’s BI journey, which began in the early 1990s with departmental reporting, evolved into data warehousing and anal...

OBJECTIVE To retrospectively investigate the diagnostic value of breast MRI in patients with BI-RADS 3-5 microcalcifications in mammography. METHODS Eighty-four patients with BI-RADS 3-5 microcalcifications on mammography underwent breast MR exams before surgical biopsy with a hookwire position under mammographic guidance. Two radiologists reviewed each lesion with BI-RADS by consensus. The d...

The incorporation of Bi in GaSb1 xBix alloys grown by molecular beam epitaxy is investigated as a function of Bi flux at fixed growth temperature (275 1C) and growth rate ð1 μm h Þ. The Bi content is found to vary proportionally with Bi flux with Bi contents, as measured by Rutherford backscattering, in the range 0oxr4:5%. The GaSbBi samples grown at the lowest Bi fluxes have smooth surfaces fr...

Business Intelligence (BI) is one of the fastest growing software sector and software vendors are rapidly developing multiple BI tools to support the growing data analysis needs of organisations. In order to be sustainable in a briskly changing turbulent environment, organisations need to have access to information about their operational performance. BI tools play a vital role in supporting th...

Business Intelligence (BI) is one of the fastest growing software sector and software vendors are rapidly developing multiple BI tools to support the growing data analysis needs of organisations. In order to be sustainable in a briskly changing turbulent environment, organisations need to have access to information about their operational performance. BI tools play a vital role in supporting th...

There are so many ISO documents to understand and utilize for validation studies and routine control. A biological indicator (BI) is essential for conducting sterilization validation and routine control. ISO 11138-1 and ISO 14161 are the major documents to follow for BI manufacturers and BI users, respectively. In ISO 11138-1, BI manufacturers must utilize a BI with 106 CFU/carrier as an initia...

OBJECTIVE Thymocyte apoptosis is a major event in sepsis; however, how this process is regulated remains poorly understood. APPROACH AND RESULTS Septic stress induces glucocorticoids production which triggers thymocyte apoptosis. Here, we used scavenger receptor BI (SR-BI)-null mice, which are completely deficient in inducible glucocorticoids in sepsis, to investigate the regulation of thymoc...