Social Business Intelligence - OLAP Applied to User Generated Contents

Author(s):  
Matteo Golfarelli
Author(s):  
Indira Lanza-Cruz ◽  
Rafael Berlanga ◽  
María José Aramburu

Social Business Intelligence (SBI) enables companies to capture strategic information from public social networks. Contrary to traditional Business Intelligence (BI), SBI has to face the high dynamicity of both the social network contents and the company analytical requests, as well as the enormous amount of noisy data. Effective exploitation of these continuous sources of data requires efficient processing of the streamed data to be semantically shaped into insightful facts. In this paper, we propose a multidimensional formalism to represent and evaluate social indicators directly from fact streams derived in turn from social network data. This formalism relies on two main aspects: the semantic representation of facts via Linked Open Data and the support of OLAP-like multidimensional analysis models. Contrary to traditional BI formalisms, we start the process by modeling the required social indicators according to the strategic goals of the company. From these specifications, all the required fact streams are modeled and deployed to trace the indicators. The main advantages of this approach are the easy definition of on-demand social indicators, and the treatment of changing dimensions and metrics through streamed facts. We demonstrate its usefulness by introducing a real scenario user case in the automotive sector.


2014 ◽  
Vol 124 ◽  
pp. 562-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihaela Muntean ◽  
Liviu Gabriel Cabău ◽  
Vlad Rînciog

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Gioti ◽  
Stavros T. Ponis ◽  
Nikolaos Panayiotou

Social business intelligence (SBI) is a rather novel discipline, emerged in theacademic and business literature as a result of the convergence of two distinct researchdomains: business intelligence (BI) and social media. Traditional BI scientists and practitioners,after an inevitable initial shock, are currently discovering and acknowledge the potential of usergenerated content (UGD) published in social media as an invaluable and inexhaustible sourceof information capable of supporting a wide range of business activities. The confluence of thesetwo emerging domains is already producing new added value organizational processes andenhanced business capabilities utilized by companies all over the world to effectively harnesssocial media data and analyze them in order to produce added value information such ascustomer profiles and demographics, search habits, and social behaviors. Currently the SBIdomain is largely uncharted, characterized by controversial definitions of terms and concepts,fragmented and isolated research efforts, obstacles created by proprietary data, systems andtechnologies that are not mature yet. This paper aspires to be one of the few -to our knowledge contemporaryefforts to explore the SBI scientific field, clarify definitions and concepts,structure the documented research efforts in the area and finally formulate an agenda of futureresearch based on the identification of current research shortcomings and limitations.


Informatics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Indira Lanza-Cruz ◽  
Rafael Berlanga ◽  
María Aramburu

Social Business Intelligence (SBI) enables companies to capture strategic information from public social networks. Contrary to traditional Business Intelligence (BI), SBI has to face the high dynamicity of both the social network’s contents and the company’s analytical requests, as well as the enormous amount of noisy data. Effective exploitation of these continuous sources of data requires efficient processing of the streamed data to be semantically shaped into insightful facts. In this paper, we propose a multidimensional formalism to represent and evaluate social indicators directly from fact streams derived in turn from social network data. This formalism relies on two main aspects: the semantic representation of facts via Linked Open Data and the support of OLAP-like multidimensional analysis models. Contrary to traditional BI formalisms, we start the process by modeling the required social indicators according to the strategic goals of the company. From these specifications, all the required fact streams are modeled and deployed to trace the indicators. The main advantages of this approach are the easy definition of on-demand social indicators, and the treatment of changing dimensions and metrics through streamed facts. We demonstrate its usefulness by introducing a real scenario user case in the automotive sector.


2015 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 87-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrico Gallinucci ◽  
Matteo Golfarelli ◽  
Stefano Rizzi

2021 ◽  
Vol 119 ◽  
pp. 07006
Author(s):  
Kawtar Mouyassir ◽  
Mohamed Hanine ◽  
Hassan Ouahmane

Business Intelligence (BI) is a collection of tools, technologies, and practices that include the entire process of collecting, processing, and analyzing qualitative information, to help entrepreneurs better understand their business and marketplace. Every day, social networks expand at a faster rate and pace, which sees them as a source of Big Data. Therefore, BI is developed in the same way on VoC (Voice of Customer) expressed in social media as qualitative data for company decision-makers, who desire to have a clear perception of customers’ behaviour. In this article, we present a comparative study between traditional BI and social BI, then examine an approach to social business intelligence. Next, we are going to demonstrate the power of Big Data that can be integrated into BI so that we can finally describe in detail how Big Data technologies, like Apache Flume, help to collect unstructured data from various sources such as social media networks and store it in Hadoop storage.


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