Organizational and Technical Factors for Implementing Business Intelligence

Abstract—For both academics and practitioners concerned with Business Intelligence (BI) systems, one of important issues is to identify the factors which are vital for successful implementation of BI projects. Hence, this paper offers a broad summary of the most common and impact factors which can be influenced in implementing BI projects. We believe it is valuable to determine these factors, particularly for managers of those companies are involved in implementing BI projects and they face to evaluate readiness of their organizations before launching the project in pre-implementation stage. The objective of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the important and critical success factors and it is to conduct a survey and comprehensive study of the critical factors in evaluation phase of the readiness by classifying the factors into two main categories; organizational and technical. It is obvious that each category has its own characteristics and a brief description of each factor is discussed.