Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dr. h.c. Jörg Becker

Abstract:

Jörg presents a conceptual model as basis for BI systems. Many companies suffer from inconsistent data in their data warehouse systems, and quite often, there is more than one of these in a company installed. Every new requirement of a department in a company concerning aggregated data results in a new report the IT department builds fulfilling these requirements. What we observe are hundreds of dimension tables and thousands of facts tables in different systems (Cognos, SAP SD, SAP CRM, SAP BW, self developed systems). The same data is shown in different systems differently (means: different values of the same ratio). So, nobody in the company beliefs that the data is „right“ and everybody starts to create another „truth“ by extracting some data from different reports importing them into EXCEL. To evercome some of these difficulties, Jörg presents a new paradigm for Management Information Systems.

Bio:

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dr. h.c. Jörg Becker is Managing Director of the Institute for Information Systems at the University of Münster and Academic Director of the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS). He served as Vice-Rector for Strategic Planning and Quality Assurance of the University Münster (2008-2016). Since 2016 he is Spokesman of the WWU Center for Europe. In 2015 he became a member of the Platform “Digital Administration and Public IT“ of the National German IT Summit as well as in 2007 he was appointed member of the Nordrhein-Westfalian Academy of Sciences and the Arts. Additionally, he is editor of various journals, i.e. ISeB (Information Systems and e-Business Management, editor-in-chief), BISE (Business and Information Systems Engineering, department-editor), Information & Management, Business Process Management. His research fields comprise Information Management, Information Modelling, Retail Information Systems, e-Government, Management Informaion Systems (Business Intelligence).