Business Intelligence and Agile Methodologies for Knowledge-Based Organizations: : Cross-Disciplinary Applications

Business intelligence applications are of vital importance as they help organizations manage, develop, and communicate intangible assets such as information and knowledge. Organizations that have undertaken business intelligence initiatives have benefited from increases in revenue, as well as significant cost savings. Business Intelligence and Agile Methodologies for Knowledge-Based Organizations: Cross-Disciplinary Applications highlights the marriage between business intelligence and knowledge management through the use of agile methodologies. Through its fifteen chapters, this book offers perspectives on the integration between process modeling, agile methodologies, business intelligence, knowledge management, and strategic management.

Asim Abdel Rahman El Sheikh is Dean of Information Technology in the Arab Academy for Banking and Financial Sciences (AABFS). He supervised a number of theses in simulation and software engineering. He earned his PhD and MSc from London School of Economics & Political Science and his BSc from University of Khartoum. He was a researcher in the Computer-Aided Simulation Modeling (CASM) Research Group. He worked as programmer, system analyst & designer in many organizations. He has authored two books and many articles. His research interest areas include SW piracy, software outsourcing, simulation modeling and SW engineering.

Mouhib Alnoukari received his PhD degree from the Arab Academy for Banking and financial Sciences (Damascus, Syria). He already received three master degrees: MS in Computer Sciences from Montpellier University (France), MS in Mathematics from Damascus University (Syria) and MBA from the Higher Institute for Administration Development, Damascus University (Syria). He is currently working as a Faculty member at the Arab International University, Damascus (Syria). His research interests are in the areas of: Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Data Warehousing, Agile methodology, Software Engineering and Databases in which he published many journal and conferences papers. He published more than 20 books both in Arabic and English languages. He has been appointed many times as track chair, reviewer in many international conferences: ICCAIE, ICOS, ISCI and Co-Chaired BISY2010. He is an editorial board member at the Journal of Computing Applications (JCA).