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A Data Warehouse (DW) is simply a consolidation of information from a variety
of data sources. It is designed to support strategic and tactical decisions. Its main
purpose is to provide a coherent picture of the business at a point in time [1]. After a
market analysis, it can be seen that there are some BI solutions in the education area,
however without pervasiveness capabilities:
a)
QuantumCube
The CIL QuantumCube Education [2] solution is based on the provision of education
services and information management defined by a Cloud architecture. This
architecture comes to provide users a new technological environment, flexible,
scalable and rapid implementation. The Education Portal software solution allows
countries, States, counties, Schools and schools group easily to create, implement and
link their education portals. This solution is Portuguese and it is applied in the
universe including Portugal. This solution provided, also, content management,
communication functionality and analysis of the state for teachers, students, parents
and education service providers. The BI education, QuantumCube, is a solution
designed to support decision-makers from education in their decision-making,
planning, analysis and monitoring of projects, based on indicators and reporting, in
the context of simple, effective access information and structured.
b)
Logi Analytics - Logi Info
In order to streamline processes, Logi Analytics is a computer applications company.
Over the years this was the best on BI applications to facilitate implementation,
decision and management of processes (Jackson, 2013). This solution came to provide
a better overview of all the results, as well as all the decisions taken. This application
is not Portuguese so even operates in the US and eventually are more addressed to
universities, healthcare and industrial area [3]. It is an extremely agile and flexible
technology and currently have clients from various sectors, such as: Financial; Health;
Education; Technology Companies; Industries and Government.
2.3
Pervasive Business Intelligence
The Pervasive Business Intelligence Solution (PBI) is a BI solution with
pervasiveness characteristics. Some of its features are [4]: real-time, policy,
interoperability, scalability, ubiquity, data security and privacy and context
awareness. Based on a literature review [5-9] on pervasive computing and business
Intelligence, a PBI must include a set of requirements, being the most important:
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Automate the process of knowledge discovery - real time data acquisition
and processing.
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Have the information always updated when necessary;
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There is a need to adapt the system to a changing environment and the
own characteristics of the user;
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