Research Area:  Big Data
Boundaries between business intelligence (BI), big data (BD), and big data analytics (BDA) are often unclear and ambiguous for companies. BD is a new research challenge; it is becoming a subject of growing importance. Notably, BD was one of the big buzzwords during the last decade. BDA can help executive managers to plan an organization-s short-term and long-term goals. Furthermore, BI is considered as a kind of decision support system (DSS) that can help organizations achieving their goals, creating corporate value and improving organizational performance. This chapter provides a comprehensive view about the interrelationships between BI, BD, and BDA. Moreover, the chapter highlights the power of analytics that make them considered as one of the highly impact-s organizational capability. Additionally, the chapter can help executive managers to decide the way to integrate BD initiatives as a tool, or as an industry, or as a corporate strategy transformation.
Keywords:  
Business Intelligence
Big Data
decision support system
industry
Author(s) Name:  Mouhib Alnoukari
Journal name:  Research Anthology on Big Data Analytics, Architectures, and Applications
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Publisher name:  IGI Global
DOI:  10.4018/978-1-6684-3662-2.ch038
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Paper Link:   https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/from-business-intelligence-to-big-data/291013