Utilização de business intelligence para gestão de área operacional de agências bancárias : um estudo de caso

A eficiência operacional nos bancos é um fator que vem ganhando importância em função da evolução no cenário econômico, apontando para maior competitividade. Nesse contexto, a gestão operacional agências torna-se cada vez mais relevante. Entretanto, a atividade de gerenciar milhares de agências, com necessidade de agilidade na tomada de decisões, mostra-se complexa. Nesse sentido, o Business Intelligence se apresenta como uma solução para otimizar a atividade de gestão, adicionando inteligência ao negócio. Não obstante, questões práticas de implementação e uso são desafios para unir BI e gestão de agências bancárias. Este trabalho analisa a aplicação de Business Intelligence para a gestão operacional de agências bancárias em busca de práticas relevantes. O método de pesquisa utilizado é o estudo de caso, aplicado em uma grande instituição financeira nacional. Por meio de consulta a documentações, entrevistas com Gerentes Regionais e Equipe de Projeto buscou-se verificar proposições que foram depreendidas da revisão da literatura sob dois aspectos: implementação e utilização da solução de BI. Como resultado, foram confirmadas as proposições apontando para importância do apoio da organização e alinhamento ao negócio para uma implementação bem sucedida, além da constatação que BI não pode ser tratado apenas como uma ferramenta, na verdade além da parte técnica, envolve processos e negócios. Com relação à utilização, foi verificado que BI traz mais qualidade à informação, melhora o suporte ao processo de tomada de decisão e trás benefícios intangíveis e tangíveis para a gestão operacional de agências bancárias, como aumento da produtividade, redução de custos e riscos e melhor atendimento ao cliente.

A relação entre business intelligence e o processo de inovação no mercado de cartões de crédito brasileiro : um estudo de caso

As ferramentas de Business Intelligence se tornaram elemento importante no contexto organizacional em função de fornecerem às empresas informações necessárias para o processo decisório. Para garantir vantagem competitiva perante os concorrentes, as empresas buscam inovar. O processo atrelado ao fenômeno da inovação é complexo e depende de uma série de fatores, tais como regulação, pressão do consumidor e tecnologia. O mercado de cartões de crédito no Brasil cresce em ritmo acelerado, com recente concentração em poucos competidores e grande variedade de produtos ofertados. Assim dito, a presente pesquisa busca analisar de que maneira o ferramental de BI se relaciona com o processo de inovação no setor de cartões de crédito brasileiro. O método de pesquisa escolhido foi o estudo de caso, realizado em uma empresa emissora de cartões de crédito com tradição no mercado. A partir de entrevistas semi-estruturadas com executivos de diversas áreas, de coleta de documentação existente e estudo das ferramentas de BI aplicadas no caso, propõe-se uma matriz da relação entre as ferramentas de BI e inovação. Como resultado conclui-se que as ferramentas de BI podem influenciar diretamente o processo de inovação, definindo novos atributos de preço, segmentos e programas de incentivo, ou indiretamente, servindo somente como insumo para discussões, identificação de gaps e formulação de estratégias, tendo uma relação indireta com o processo de inovação.

Spatio-temporal patterns of tuberculosis incidence in Ribeirao Preto, State of Sao Paulo, southeast Brazil, and their relationship with social vulnerability: a Bayesian analysis

Introduction: The purpose of this ecological study was to evaluate the urban spatial and temporal distribution of tuberculosis (TB) in Ribeirao Preto, State of Sao Paulo, southeast Brazil, between 2006 and 2009 and to evaluate its relationship with factors of social vulnerability such as income and education level. Methods: We evaluated data from TBWeb, an electronic notification system for TB cases. Measures of social vulnerability were obtained from the SEADE Foundation, and information about the number of inhabitants, education and income of the households were obtained from Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. Statistical analyses were conducted by a Bayesian regression model assuming a Poisson distribution for the observed new cases of TB in each area. A conditional autoregressive structure was used for the spatial covariance structure. Results: The Bayesian model confirmed the spatial heterogeneity of TB distribution in Ribeirao Preto, identifying areas with elevated risk and the effects of social vulnerability on the disease. We demonstrated that the rate of TB was correlated with the measures of income, education and social vulnerability. However, we observed areas with low vulnerability and high education and income, but with high estimated TB rates. Conclusions: The study identified areas with different risks for TB, given that the public health system deals with the characteristics of each region individually and prioritizes those that present a higher propensity to risk of TB. Complex relationships may exist between TB incidence and a wide range of environmental and intrinsic factors, which need to be studied in future research.

Spatio-temporal patterns of tuberculosis incidence in Ribeirão Preto, State of São Paulo, southeast Brazil, and their relationship with social vulnerability: a Bayesian analysis

INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this ecological study was to evaluate the urban spatial and temporal distribution of tuberculosis (TB) in Ribeirão Preto, State of São Paulo, southeast Brazil, between 2006 and 2009 and to evaluate its relationship with factors of social vulnerability such as income and education level. METHODS: We evaluated data from TBWeb, an electronic notification system for TB cases. Measures of social vulnerability were obtained from the SEADE Foundation, and information about the number of inhabitants, education and income of the households were obtained from Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. Statistical analyses were conducted by a Bayesian regression model assuming a Poisson distribution for the observed new cases of TB in each area. A conditional autoregressive structure was used for the spatial covariance structure. RESULTS: The Bayesian model confirmed the spatial heterogeneity of TB distribution in Ribeirão Preto, identifying areas with elevated risk and the effects of social vulnerability on the disease. We demonstrated that the rate of TB was correlated with the measures of income, education and social vulnerability. However, we observed areas with low vulnerability and high education and income, but with high estimated TB rates. CONCLUSIONS: The study identified areas with different risks for TB, given that the public health system deals with the characteristics of each region individually and prioritizes those that present a higher propensity to risk of TB. Complex relationships may exist between TB incidence and a wide range of environmental and intrinsic factors, which need to be studied in future research.

Metodi e strumenti di business intelligence per i processi di ciclo attivo: un caso di studio in un?azienda di servizi

Relazione tecnica e funzionale, con rimandi teorici disciplinari, riguardo la realizzazione di un sistema informatico su piattaforma Microsoft per l'organizzazione e la fruizione delle informazioni di Ciclo attivo in un'azienda di servizi di grandi dimensioni.

Pervasive Business Intelligence

In the last few years, a new generation of Business Intelligence (BI) tools called BI 2.0 has emerged to meet the new and ambitious requirements of business users. BI 2.0 not only introduces brand new topics, but in some cases it re-examines past challenges according to new perspectives depending on the market changes and needs. In this context, the term pervasive BI has gained increasing interest as an innovative and forward-looking perspective. This thesis investigates three different aspects of pervasive BI: personalization, timeliness, and integration. Personalization refers to the capacity of BI tools to customize the query result according to the user who takes advantage of it, facilitating the fruition of BI information by different type of users (e.g., front-line employees, suppliers, customers, or business partners). In this direction, the thesis proposes a model for On-Line Analytical Process (OLAP) query personalization to reduce the query result to the most relevant information for the specific user. Timeliness refers to the timely provision of business information for decision-making. In this direction, this thesis defines a new Data Warehuose (DW) methodology, Four-Wheel-Drive (4WD), that combines traditional development approaches with agile methods; the aim is to accelerate the project development and reduce the software costs, so as to decrease the number of DW project failures and favour the BI tool penetration even in small and medium companies. Integration refers to the ability of BI tools to allow users to access information anywhere it can be found, by using the device they prefer. To this end, this thesis proposes Business Intelligence Network (BIN), a peer-to-peer data warehousing architecture, where a user can formulate an OLAP query on its own system and retrieve relevant information from both its local system and the DWs of the net, preserving its autonomy and independency.

Studio e implementazione di una soluzione di business intelligence a supporto dell'analisi economico finanziaria

Progetto di tesi svolto in azienda. Studio dei principali concetti di Business Intelligence (BI) e degli strumenti per la BI. Confronto tra i principali vendor nel mercato dell'analisi dei dati e della Business Intelligence. Studio e reigegnerizzazione di un modello per l'analisi economico finanziaria dei fornitori/clienti di un'azienda. Realizzazione di un prototipo del modello utilizzando un nuovo strumento per la reportistica: Tableau. Il prototipo si basa su dati economici finanziari estratti da banche dati online e forniti dall'azienda cliente. Implementazione finale del database e di un flusso automatico per la riclassificazione dei dati di bilancio.

Integrating structured and unstructured data in a business-intelligence-system

The recent liberalization of the German energy market has forced the energy industry to develop and install new information systems to support agents on the energy trading floors in their analytical tasks. Besides classical approaches of building a data warehouse giving insight into the time series to understand market and pricing mechanisms, it is crucial to provide a variety of external data from the web. Weather information as well as political news or market rumors are relevant to give the appropriate interpretation to the variables of a volatile energy market. Starting from a multidimensional data model and a collection of buy and sell transactions a data warehouse is built that gives analytical support to the agents. Following the idea of web farming we harvest the web, match the external information sources after a filtering and evaluation process to the data warehouse objects, and present this qualified information on a user interface where market values are correlated with those external sources over the time axis.

Market, Management and Profession. Social Business in the Polder

In a recent policy document of the organized employers in the care and welfare sector in The Netherlands (the MO Group), directors and board members of care and welfare institutions present themselves as "social entrepreneurs", managing their institutions as look-a like commercial companies. They are hardly criticized and there is not any countervailing power of significance. The workers are focusing on their own specialized professional fields and divided as a whole. Many government officials are in favour or do not bother. The relatively small number of intellectual workers in Dutch care and welfare are fragmented and pragmatic. From a democratic point of view this is a worrying situation. From a professional point of view the purpose and functions of professional care and welfare work are at stake. The penetration of market mechanisms and the take-over by commercially orientated managers result from unquestioned adaptation of Anglo-Saxon policy in The Netherlands in the 1990's, following the crisis of the Welfare State in the late 1980's. The polder country is now confronted fully with the pressure and negative effects of unbalanced powers in the institutions, i.e. Managerialism. After years of silence, the two principal authentic critics of Dutch care and welfare, Harry Kunneman and Andries Baart, are no longer voices crying in the wilderness, but are getting a response from a growing number of worried workers and intellectuals. Kunneman and Baart warn against the restriction of professional space and the loss of normative values and standards in the profession. They are right. It is high time to make room for criticism and to start a debate about the future of the social professions in The Netherlands, better: in Europe. Research, discussion and action have to prove how worrying the everyday situation of professional workers is, what goals have to be set and what strategy to be chosen.