Business intelligence in the cloud: A case of Pakistan

Abstract

To predict the market trends, to improve enterprise performance, and for the smarter business outcomes, Business intelligence (BI) "an integrated set of tools, technologies and programmed products that are used to collect, integrate, analyze and make data available", become the basic need for the businesses. Due Economic, technological and human resource constraints, the SMEs are not able to achieve the benefits of BI. In this paper we proposes, firstly Bl-in-Cloud computing Model for SMEs, to meet their goals for profitability, revenue, cost reduction, and risk management, Secondly the regional telecom operator as Bl-in-Cloud platform and Service provider, under the supervision of regulatory authorities, with the support of government and concerned bodies.