Frontiers of Business Intelligence and Analytics
To understand definitions regarding the taxonomy of BI, read this paper, where an example of the methodology in the research process is used. It also discusses how the taxonomy for BI and analysis was developed, how it is applied, and an analysis of the current status with predicted development for the next wave or 3.0 of BI, as well as potential gaps. A clear diagram of the taxonomy development process is shown in Figure 6. While a picture is worth a thousand words, sometimes you must explain complex processes narratively.
Research design
Search string development
By reviewing existing structured literature reviews (see Sect. 2.2), it turned out that none of them addresses BI & A 3.0. Thus, it is not possible to apply the meta-characteristics of the existing structured literature reviews as explicit basis for our approach. Nevertheless, existing reviews address the field of BI & A in general, which let us apply the corresponding concepts as one search string term. Finally, the applied search string for the literature search contains three search terms, which are determined by the definition of scope:
- Selection of named conferences and journals in the IS discipline (See Sect. 3.1).
- BI & A typical keywords.
- BI & A 3.0 key terms, defined by Chen et al.
We adapt the fundamental key terms of BI and BI & A 3.0 using truncations and masks to capture linguistic deviations or synonyms and limit the time horizon to articles, published between January 1st 2010 and December 31st 2018. The applied search string for the second and third part of the search string is provided in Fig. 5.
Fig. 5
Parts of the applied search string
The defined search string is applied in two major databases: Ebscohost and the electronic library of the Association for information systems (AISeL). AISeL does not allow to enter the full search string, as defined above. Thus, we first enter the BI & A attributes, export the results into the literature management software Citavi and then filter the results according to the BI & A 3.0 attributes. In total, 856 hits could be initially received by applying the search string in both databases.