A New Dimension of Business Intelligence: Location-based Intelligence

Through the course of this paper we define Locationbased Intelligence (LBI) which is outgrowing from process of amalgamation of geolocation and Business Intelligence. Amalgamating geolocation with traditional Business Intelligence (BI) results in a new dimension of BI named Location-based Intelligence. LBI is defined as leveraging unified location information for business intelligence. Collectively, enterprises can transform location data into business intelligence applications that will benefit all aspects of the enterprise. Expectations from this new dimension of business intelligence are great and its future is obviously bright.

Authors:

• Zeljko Panian

Keywords:

• Business intelligence
• geolocation
• location-based intelligence
• innovation
• location-intelligent business

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