Critical Barriers to Business Intelligence Open Source Software Adoption

Over the past few years, managers have been hard pressed to become more data-driven, and one of the prerequisites in doing so is through the adoption of Business Intelligence (BI) tools. However (1) the adoption of BI tools remains relatively low (2) the acquisition costs of proprietary BI tools are relatively high and (3) the level of satisfaction with these BI tools remain low. Given the potential of open source BI (OSBI) tools, there is a need for analyzing barriers that prevent organizations from adopting OSBI. Drawing a systematic review and a Qualitative Survey of BI Experts, this study proposes a framework that categorizes and structures 23 barriers to OSBI adoption by organizations including 4 that were identified by BI Experts but not explicitly found in the literature. This paper contributes to OSS and Information Systems (IS) research literature on BI adoption in general and provides specific insights to practitioners.

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Beyond Models of National Culture in Information Systems Research

Advanced Topics in Global Information Management, Volume 2 - Advances in Global Information Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-064-6.ch002 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 14-29 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Michael D. Myers ◽

Felix B. Tan

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Information Systems ◽

Cultural Differences ◽

National Culture ◽

Research Literature ◽

Global Organizations ◽

Is Research ◽

Systems Research ◽

Dynamic View ◽

Information Systems Research

Many IS scholars argue that global organizations need to understand cultural differences if they are to successfully deploy information technology. We agree that an understanding of cultural differences is important, but suggest that the concept of “national culture” that has tended to dominate the IS research literature is too simplistic. In this article, we challenge information systems researchers to go beyond models of national culture. We propose that IS researchers should adopt a more dynamic view of culture – one that sees culture as contested, temporal and emergent.

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Categorizing the IS research literature: A user oriented perspective

10.28945/2982 ◽

2006 ◽

Author(s):

Bandula Jayatilaka ◽

Heinz Klein ◽

Jinyoul Lee

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Structuration Theory ◽

Research Literature ◽

The Body ◽

New Approach ◽

Is Research ◽

Body Of Knowledge ◽

The Social ◽

Key Word ◽

Core Concepts

The predecessors of this research project were the efforts to classify the Information Systems (IS) research along paradigmatic lines. While the paradigmatic classifications are very useful philosophically, examination of an issue such as the use of Information Systems and the related socioorganizational issues require a classification that is centered around the social phenomenon of the use and effects of IS. Our approach to the categorization of the body of knowledge captured in the existing Information Systems literature can make the contributions to the use side of Information Systems more explicit. The new twist of this approach is that it provide an integrative perspectives on IS use by seeking to bridge the most prevalent divides currently fragmenting the IS literature. We call our proposal for a new approach to literature classification “substance oriented”, because it follows neither the latest paradigmatic classification nor earlier bottom up citation or key word based literature classification schemes. Instead it explicitly builds on social theory concepts directly relevant for the “user-domain” and is in this sense “substance-oriented”, at least at its highest level. In its current version, the paper identifies the core concepts of Gidden’s Structuration Theory (ST) as being relatively most suited for capturing user concerns in the existing archival body of IS research publications.

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Antecedents of open source software adoption in health care organizations: A qualitative survey of experts in Canada

International Journal of Medical Informatics ◽

10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2013.04.001 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 82 (8) ◽

pp. 731-741 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Josianne Marsan ◽

Guy Paré

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Open Source ◽

Open Source Software ◽

Health Care Organizations ◽

Software Adoption ◽

Qualitative Survey

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Beyond Models of National Culture in Information Systems Research

Human Factors in Information Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-931777-10-0.ch001 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 1-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Michael D. Myers ◽

Felix B. Tan

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Information Systems ◽

Cultural Differences ◽

National Culture ◽

Research Literature ◽

Global Organizations ◽

Is Research ◽

Systems Research ◽

Dynamic View ◽

Information Systems Research

Many IS scholars argue that global organizations need to understand cultural differences if they are to successfully deploy information technology. We agree that an understanding of cultural differences is important, but suggest that the concept of “national culture” that has tended to dominate the IS research literature is too simplistic. In this article, we challenge information systems researchers to go beyond models of national culture. We propose that IS researchers should adopt a more dynamic view of culture – one that sees culture as contested, temporal and emergent.

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Open Source Software Adoption: A Technological Innovation Perspective

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2244222 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Kevin Crowston ◽

François Deltour ◽

Nicolas Jullien

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Technological Innovation ◽

Open Source Software ◽

Software Adoption

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The Effect of Smart Boards on the Cognition and Motivation of Students

Higher Education Studies ◽

10.5539/hes.v7n1p60 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 60 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nitza Davidovitch ◽

Roman Yavich

Keyword(s):

Sixth Grade ◽

Research Literature ◽

General Level ◽

Significant Finding ◽

Level Of Satisfaction ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Technological Developments ◽

Research Findings ◽

Measure Change ◽

Smart Boards

In recent years the research literature has explored technological developments in varied areas that measure change. The current study focuses on the smart board, and its purpose is to examine its effect on the school system. The study was conducted via a questionnaire completed by 130 respondents (boys and girls) in the fifth and sixth grades of two elementary schools in Jerusalem—Efrata and Tali Gilo. Smart boards were introduced in these two schools in recent years.We hypothesized that smart boards improve teaching, based on the teaching measures developed by Nira Hativa of Tel Aviv University: order and organization, level of clarity, interest, and general level of satisfaction. The study’s significant finding is that the greatest improvement since the introduction of smart boards is in the variable of clarity, and a significant difference was found in the favor of sixth grade students. Additionally, a significant difference was found in the variable of interest, in favor of the girls. All four variables appear to be interrelated, and each contributes to the student’s success and to improving the student’s learning process.The research findings illuminate the contribution of technology to teaching, through a case study of smart boards, in the dimension of clarity, found by the study to be a significant criterion of good teaching. Examination of the various technological tools in light of their contribution to the research-proven dimensions of outstanding teaching might enhance the pedagogical contribution of technological developments to teaching.

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