Business Intelligence and analytics case study in a greek manufacturing company

Abstract

Corporate entities are approving ever greater investments in information technology tools designed to store and analyse the business data they possess. The field of Business Intelligence has significantly impacted the processes of decision making. The goal to convert the vast amount of collected data into information, knowledge and ultimately profit has rendered the role of reporting necessary. Such reporting insights are created by the tools of Business Intelligence and consist of presenting the results of a data analysing process in way that is relevant to the needs of the company. These analyses typically focus on the past performance but can also extend into the future. The present document aims to both present Business Intelligence as a field of study and perform an implementation of its techniques to create KPIs of a manufacturing company’s critical processes. The tool used will be Power BI from Microsoft.