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Methodology for evaluating CI software packages
journal contribution
posted on 2017-02-09, 15:06 authored by Temilade Adefioye Aina, Louise Cooke, Derek StephensCompetitive intelligence (CI) is important for businesses to remain competitive. Software technologies have been developed to make the CI process simpler. These software technologies need to be able to carry out CI effectively by performing all the stages in the CI Cycle, conforming to the British Standard software quality characteristics, extract
information from large data sets by having certain Additional Features and be cost effective. Three evaluation frameworks were developed based on the CI Cycle, British Standard and Additional Features. This methodology and the marketing literature of the software were used to evaluate four CI software packages. Information on cost and availability of a free trial version was also taken from the marketing literature. From the evaluation results, the software were able to support at least one CI Cycle stage and at least one British Standard characteristics but none of them fully had any of the Additional Features. One of them has a free trial version, while two of them had information about the cost of their commercial version. It is recommended that before choosing CI software, CI practitioners determine and prioritize their intelligence needs and then test which CI software can meet them. Also, CI software vendors need to provide more information in their marketing literature on the cost and availability of a free trial version of their software and features pertaining to the CI Cycle, British Standard and Additional Features. The British Standard and Additional Features have not been used in the
previous CI software evaluation studies.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
Business Information ReviewVolume
33Issue
4Pages
211 - 220 (10)Citation
AINA, T.A., COOKE, L. and STEPHENS, D., 2016. Methodology for evaluating CI software packages. Business Information Review, 33 (4), pp. 211-220.Publisher
© The Authors. Published by SAGEVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2016-08-12Publication date
2016-12-22Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Business Information Review and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0266382116675249.ISSN
0266-3821eISSN
1741-6450Publisher version
Language
- en