Business intelligence and decision support systems: business applications in the modern information system era

Today, the business intelligence and decision support systems are proven as a vital infrastructure for the ever-growing business organization. Business enterprises are ever more depending on data to respond to key operational and strategic operation of their customers, markets, and their stakeholders. The business intelligence has progressed as the volume of data created by the intelligent devices and the Internet have grown up exponentially. Nevertheless, without appropriate applications and systems in a position to analyze the increasing big data, the enterprises are encountering various complexities. This chapter discusses the applications, challenges, and conceptually designed architecture that includes skills requirement, mining techniques, technical, design elements in business intelligence, and decision support systems.