Data Integration and Governance in Business Intelligence Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Data governance refers to the sets of practices, policies, and procedures used to improve data quality, integrity, and security. As organizations and individuals continue to produce, share, and leverage vast amounts of data, the importance of robust data governance cannot be overstated. From personal information to organizational assets, data have come to constitute a critical resource driving innovation and decision making. This growth raises significant challenges, not only in data usage but also in related processing and storage processes, making effective data governance more crucial than ever. Data governance provides a framework to organize the data that are integrated, transformed, and used for business intelligence activities.

This Special Issue invites scientific contributions proposing new, innovative, and original approaches for the development of business intelligence using data governance practices. This Issue aims to provide an opportunity for academics and practitioners to share their theoretical and practical knowledge and findings in the field.

This Special Issue particularly looks forward to articles presenting, among others:

• Artificial intelligence applied to business intelligence and data governance.
• Business intelligence, business analytics and data integration.
• Data catalogs and active metadata.
• Semantic data and knowledge graphs.
• Inception and development of modern data architectures for data lakes, data warehouses, data lakehouses, data meshes and vaults.
• Data quality, curation provenance, security and their role in business intelligence systems.
• Innovative approaches and challenges for data integration.
• Data governance applications for learning, finance, marketing, banking, medicine, industry and services.

Dr. Bruno Oliveira
Dr. Óscar Oliveira
Dr. Telmo Matos
Guest Editors

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• data quality
• data integration
• business analytics
• data governance
• business intelligence
• data architectures