Enabling factors for successful business intelligence systems: A review

Business Intelligence (BI) systems have continually been one of the top priorities of CIOs for almost a decade.BI systems provide the ability to analyze information in order to support management decision making process.In context of Malaysia rural development, BI can potentially be the driving force that enable major transformation to take place.Currently, studies on success factors of BI systems have been well research, yet many organizations are still struggling to make use of the information in their BI systems implementation.The aim of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the enabling factors for successful BI systems for the appropriate needs of the organizations.This paper reviews success factors of BI systems and outlines the factors according to the need of organization.The review contributes to both academia and industry by providing analysis of success factors that direct and indirect support the organization decision making process