OLAP enables users to access information from multidimensional data warehouses almost instantly, to view information in any way they like, and to cleanly specify and carry out sophisticated calculations. Although many commercial OLAP tools and products are now available, OLAP is still a difficult and complex technology to master.
Business intelligence (BI) has been around for many more years than you might think.
Decision support systems (DSS) and executive information systems (EIS) from the 1970s and
1980s, along with artificial intelligence (AI) systems from the 1990s, can now all be considered
as part of what BI comprises today.
Identity theft and other confidential information theft have now topped the charts as the #1 cybercrime. In particular, credit card data is preferred by cybercriminals. Is your payment processing secure and compliant? Now in its second edition, PCI Compliance has been revised to follow the new PCI DSS standard 1.2.1. Also new to this edition:...
Data mining has developed rapidly and has become very popular in the past two decades, but actually has
its origin in the early stages of IT, then being mostly limited to one-dimensional searching in databases.
The statistical basis of what is now also referred to as data mining has often been laid centuries ago. In
corporate...
The origin of this volume came while planning the 2009 International Conference on Decision Support Systems. The theme of that 2-day conference was “Assessing Today and Envisioning Tomorrow.” We wanted to summarize where the field had been and generate ideas regarding where it was going. The meeting brought together...
Web-based Support Systems (WSS) are an emerging multidisciplinary research area
in which one studies the support of human activities with the Web as the common
platform, medium and interface. The Internet affects every aspect of our modern life.
Moving support systems to online is an increasing trend in many research domains.
One of...
Decision-making has evolved recently thanks to the introduction of information and communication technologies in many organizations, which has led to new kinds of decision-making processes, called “collaborative decision-making”, at the organizational and cognitive levels. This book looks at the development of the decision-making...
Protect Your Organization Against Massive Data Breaches and Their Consequences
Data breaches can be catastrophic, but they remain mysterious because victims don’t want to talk about them. In Data Breaches, world-renowned cybersecurity expert Sherri Davidoff shines a light on these events,...
Knowledge Management (KM) has been growing in importance and popularity as a research topic since the mid 1990s. This is sufficient time for many organizations to implement KM initiatives and KM systems (KMS). This book presents twenty cases investigating the implementation of KM in a number of business and industry settings and...
The credit card industry established the PCI Data Security Standards to provide a minimum standard for how vendors should protect data to ensure it is not stolen by fraudsters. PCI Compliance, 3e, provides the information readers need to understand the current PCI Data Security standards, which have recently been updated to version...
