scholarly journals Adoption of Business Intelligence to Support Cost Accounting Based Financial Systems — Case Study of XYZ Company

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-28
Author(s):  
Ford Lumban Gaol ◽  
Lufty Abdillah ◽  
Tokuro Matsuo

AbstractXYZ is a company engaged in the port sector. To support the company’s business processes, XYZ uses two applications to carry out operational activities, namely the CARTOS application to manage invoices and the Finance application to record company costs and revenues. To produce a cost accounting report, XYZ is still processing and visualizing it manually with data sources from the two applications mentioned earlier. This resulted in quite a long time processing data into information. So that reporting to management cannot be done in real time. Therefore XYZ needs a system that can help management to analyze and manage data into information in real time. The Business Intelligence (BI) method is one of the solutions for company needs, especially in analyzing and providing access to data to help make better decisions.This study discusses the design and implementation of business intelligence solutions ranging from architecture, data warehouse, ETL processes and visualization in the form of a dashboard in accordance with the needs of XYZ. The method used in developing business intelligence dashboards refers to the executive information system life cycle method which consists of justification, planning, business analysis, design, construction, and dissemination. The results of this research are dashboard visualization using the Power BI tool that displays information and knowledge needed in the monitoring process and becomes material to produce management decisions related to cost accounting reports.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ford Lumban Gaol ◽  
Lufty Abdillah ◽  
Tokuro Matsuo

Abstract Introduction: XYZ is a company engaged in the port sector. XYZ is engaged in the business of loading and unloading terminal services and container buildup. To support the company's business processes. Case Description: XYZ uses two applications in carrying out operational activities, namely the CARTOS application to manage bills and the Finance application to record company costs and revenues. To produce a cost accounting report, PT XYZ is still processing and visualizing it manually using Microsoft Excel applications with data sources from the two applications previously mentioned. There are problems related to the process, where the processing time to process data into information is quite long. So that reporting to management cannot be done in real time. Discussion and Evaluation: The development of business competition is very rapid, the management of XYZ must be able to make decisions quickly and accurately, so company needs tools that can help the management to analyze and manage data into information in real time. The Business Intelligence (BI) method is one of the solutions to the company's needs, especially in analyzing and providing access to data to help make better decisions. Conclusion: This study discusses the design and implementation of business intelligence solutions ranging from architecture, data warehouse, ETL processes and visualization in the form of a dashboard in accordance with the needs of PT XYZ. The method used in developing the business intelligence dashboard refers to the executive information system lifecycle method which consists of justification, planning, business analysis, design, construction and deployment. The results of this research are dashboard visualization using Power BI tools that display information and knowledge needed in the monitoring process and become material for generating management decisions related to cost accounting reports.


IEEE Access ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Liwen Zhang ◽  
Xianwen Fang ◽  
Chifeng Shao ◽  
Lili Wang

2013 ◽  
Vol 86 (11) ◽  
pp. 2939-2965 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffaele Conforti ◽  
Marcello La Rosa ◽  
Giancarlo Fortino ◽  
Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede ◽  
Jan Recker ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 948-971
Author(s):  
Kanana Ezekiel ◽  
Vassil Vassilev ◽  
Karim Ouazzane ◽  
Yogesh Patel

Purpose Changing scattered and dynamic business rules in business workflow systems has become a growing problem that hinders the use and configuration of workflow-based applications. There is a gap in the existing research studies which currently focus on solutions that are application specific, without accounting for the universal logical dependencies between the business rules and, as a result, do not support adaptation of the business rules in real time. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach To tackle the above problems, this paper adopts a bottom-up approach, which puts forward a component model of the business process workflows and then adds business rules which have clear logical semantics. This allows incremental development of the workflows and semantic indexing of the rules which govern them during the initial acquisition. Findings The paper introduces an event-driven model for development of business workflows which is purely logic-based and can be easily implemented using an object-oriented technology, together with a model of the business rules dependencies which supports incremental semantic indexing. It also proposes a two-level inference mechanism as a vehicle for controlling the business process execution and the process of adaptation of the business rules at real time based on propagating the dependencies. Research limitations/implications The framework is strictly logical and completely domain-independent. It allows to account both synchronous and asynchronous triggering events as well as both qualitative and quantitative description of the conditions of the rules. Although our primary interest is to apply the framework to the business processes typical in the construction industry we believe our approach has much wider potential due to its strictly logical formalization and domain independence. In fact it can be used to control any business processes where the execution is governed by rules. Practical implications The framework could be applied to both large business process modelling tasks and small but very dynamic business processes like the typical digital business processes found in online banking or e-Commerce. For example, it can be used for adjusting security policies by adding the capability to adapt automatically the access rights to account for additional resources and new channels of operation which can be very interesting ion both B2C and B2B applications. Social implications The potential scope of the impact of the research reported here is linked to the wide applicability of rule-based systems in business. Our approach makes it possible not only to control the execution of the processes, but also to identify problems in the control policies themselves from the point of view of their logical properties – consistency, redundancies and potential gaps in the logics. In addition to this, our approach not only increases the efficiency, but also provides flexibility for adaptation of the policies in real time and increases the security of the overall control which improves the overall quality of the automation. Originality/value The major achievement reported in this paper is the construction of a universal, strictly logic-based event-driven framework for business process modelling and control, which allows purely logical analysis and adaptation of the business rules governing the business workflows through accounting their dependencies. An added value is the support for object-oriented implementation and the incremental indexing which has been possible thanks to the bottom-up approach adopted in the construction of the framework.


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwi Swasono Rachmad ◽  
Gabriel Firsta Adnyana

ABSTRACT One of strategic that has been carried out by several universities in Indonesia to achieve quality academic and governance services is through the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the form of the use of academic information systems that contribute to improving the reputation of universities, as well as increasing user satisfaction. Lecture activities such as teaching and learning activities (KBM), the implementation of the semester exam, lecturer meeting is a daily operational activities. Teaching and learning activities are things that have become routine, but still often happens that students forget the academic activities that become obligations either because of a schedule change or other reasons. Regular schedule changes are usually distributed by the Administration to students or lecturers manually through a notice board The use of media boards raises difficulties for students, especially for students who have off-campus activities so the use of bulletin boards to convey information about lectures and academic activities among students became less effective. Therefore, an application is needed to help the delivery of information in realtime to remind students to carry out academic activities on schedule. Target to be achieved is to provide an e-reminder application of academic activities. This application consists of 3 users, the admin to enter the information mading, user (lecturer) to determine the schedule of guidance and user (student) to display the schedule of lectures, and the payment of the lecture along with notification of the schedule reminder so it can help and provide convenience for the administration in preparing and reminding activities to be carried out so that students can see about academic information and tuition payment information in real time both to students who are inside and outside the campus. Keywords : e-reminder, academic activities, mobile app<br />ABSTRAK<br />Beberapa perguruan tinggi di Indonesia untuk mencapai pelayanan akademik dan tata kelola yang berkualitas adalah melalui pemanfaatan Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi (TIK) berupa penggunaan sistem informasi akademik yang berperan untuk meningkatkan reputasi perguruan tinggi, serta meningkatkan kepuasan pengguna Kegiatan belajar mengajar merupakan hal yang sudah menjadi rutinitas, namun masih seringkali terjadi mahasiswa yang lupa dengan aktifitas akademik yang menjadi kewajibannya karena adanya perubahan jadwal, ataupun hal lainnya. Perubahan jadwal regular biasanya didistribusikan oleh pihak Tata Usaha ke mahasiswa atau dosen secara manual melalui papan pengumuman. Penggunaan media papan pengumuman menimbulkan kesulitan bagi mahasiswa, terutama bagi mahasiswa yang mempunyai aktifitas di luar kampus sehingga penggunaan papan pengumuman untuk menyampaikan seputar informasi perkuliahan dan kegiatan akademik di kalangan mahasiswa menjadi kurang efektif. Aplikasi ini terdiri dari 3 pengguna, yaitu admin untuk memasukan informasi mading, user (dosen) untuk menentukan jadwal bimbingan dan user (mahasiswa) untuk menampilkan jadwal kuliah, dan pembayaran kuliah beserta notifikasi pengingat jadwal tersebut sehingga dapat membantu dan memberikan kemudahan bagi pihak tata usaha dalam menyusun serta mengingatkan kegiatan yang akan dilakukan sehingga mahasiswa dapat melihat seputar informasi akademik dan informasi pembayaran uang kuliah secara real time baik kepada mahasiswa yang berada didalam maupun diluar kampus.<br />Kata kunci : e-reminder, aktifitas akademik, aplikasi mobile


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