Design and Development of Business Intelligence Portal in Cloud Computing

Abstract

Cloud Computing is a buzzword for web infrastructure. There is a shift in business from desktops towards Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing is not a completely new concept; it has intricate connection to the established Grid Computing paradigm, and other relevant technologies such as utility computing, cluster computing and distributed systems in general. Business Intelligence (BI) refers to computer-based techniques used in spotting, digging-out, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments or associated costs and incomes. Business Intelligence technologies provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations. Common functions of Business Intelligence technologies are reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP), analytics, data mining, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining, and predictive analytics. Business Intelligence is, nowadays, given a high priority in top enterprise applications. Business Intelligence technologies provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations. Integrating BI with Cloud Computing will bring revolutionary changes in business analytics. Implementing BI in Cloud Computing allows users to access data from anywhere in the world. To access business operations in a Cloud in a simple way Business Intelligence applications are required. Some of the cloud providers have implemented BI in Cloud Computing, but still there are lot of challenges that need to be handled while implementing BI Cloud. In this thesis available BI Clouds have been compared, benefits of BI cloud and challenges while implementing a BI Cloud have been discussed. A BI cloud portal has also been designed, developed and presented in this thesis. This portal has been deployed on cloud environment provided by Google App Engine.