BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE MONITOR

摘要

The present invention is directed to a business intelligence monitor method and apparatus that satisfies this need. The method, leveraging the functionality of an existing business information reporting infrastructure, the method comprises the step s of authoring a monitor document derived from a determined methodology, building a report guided by the document and publishing the report. The authoring step comprises creatin g one or more intelligence indicators, establishing thresholds for the indicators and selecting status definitions for the thresholds. The building step comprises retrieving data from a data source for each indicator, assigning statuses to each indicator based on retrieved data and generating a report comprising indicators, data and statuses. The publishing step comprises parsing one or more selected templates to obtain instructions for publishing and publishing predicated on the obtained instructions.