A Business Intelligence Architecture To Monitor and Analyze National Science and Technology Developments

Business intelligence (BI) assist organizations assess their performance through integration of various data resources as one of fundamental pillars in national development of countries, and governments devise appropriate policies to flourish their national S&T developments. In this paper, a BI architecture for integration of national S&T data is proposed to assess and analyze national S&T developments. For this purpose, first the performance management cycle of national S&T developments is designed, and then to materialize this cycle, the BI architecture for monitoring and assessment of national S&T developments is proposed. In a case study on the national Iranian S&T data resources, the proposed architecture is used in developing a prototype system to evaluate its effectiveness in practice. The developed system provides S&T policymakers with a holistic macro-level view of nationwide S&T development trends which help them propose appropriate policies.