Ebook: Application of Intelligent Agent Technology for Managerial Data Analysis and Mining

Data analysis and mining technologies help bring business intelligence into organizational decision support systems (DSS). While a myriad of data analysis and mining technologies are commercially available today, organizations are seeing a growing gap between powerful storage (data warehouse) systems and the business users' ability to analyze and act effectively on the information they contain. We contend that to narrow this gap effectively, a data analysis and mining environment is needed tnat can bring together and make available for use many of these technologies, that can support business users with different backgrounds, and with which the users can work comfortably.