SemCockpit - An Ontology-Driven, Interactive Business Intelligence Tool for Comparative Data Analysis

please refer to: http://www.dke.jku.at/research/projects/details.xq?name=SemCockpit Business analysts frequently use Cockpits or Dashboards as front ends to data warehouses for inspecting and comparing multidimensional data at various levels of detail. These tools, however, perform badly in supporting a business analyst in his or her business intelligence task of understanding and evaluating a business within its environmental context through comparative data analysis. With important business knowledge either unrepresented or represented in a form not processable by automatic reasoning, the analyst is limited in the analyses that can be formulated and she or he heavily suffers from information overload with the need to re-judge similar situations again and again, and to rediscriminate between already explained and novel relationships between data. The Semantic Cockpit assists and guides the business analyst in defining analysis tasks and in discriminating between usual phenomena and novel interesting situations to be followed up. The Semantic Cockpit is an intelligent partner of the business analyst due to reasoning about various kinds of knowledge, explicitly represented by machineprocessable ontologies, such as organisation-internal knowledge, organisation external domain knowledge, the semantics of measures and scores, knowledge about insights gained from previous analysis, and knowledge about how to act upon unusually low or high comparison scores.