Original scientific paper
USAGE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DATA WAREHOUSES IN LARGER SLOVENIAN AND CROATIAN COMPANIES: A COMPARISON
Mojca Indihar Štemberger
; Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Jurij Jaklič
; Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Katarina Ćurko
; Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The modern information technologies (IT) facilitate new ways of enabling better business decisions and thus improving management. Usage of IT and the development of decision support systems, based on a data warehouse, have an important role in achieving better effects with in management and decision-making. At Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana, Institute for Business Informatics, and at the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb, Department of Business Computing, they have investigated the state of an information system in organizations, the usage of information technology (IT) and a data warehouse concept. The present study was conducted using a questionnaire survey that was given to the IT managers. Questions about Internet technologies and business process reengineering were also included in the research, but that part is not the objective of this paper. In this paper the results concerning information technology usage and the data warehouse concept in large Slovenian and Croatian companies are presented. The results of the research in Slovenia and Croatia are compared. The goal of this study is to identify the similarities and differences between two countries involved in transition processes.
Keywords
information system (IS); transactional system; data warehouse (DW); larger companies; questionnaire
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78696
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Publication date:
14.12.2000.
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