Abstract
Current business intelligence applications and most researches on enterprise performance analysis focus on one part of the business in isolation, the data produced from either the information system or the business process. One the one hand, such single perspective of the correlated data may produce incomplete or biased results. On the other hand, the integration of both data categories faces several challenges inherent to the differences in their semantics, structures and separate storage. To overcome these challenges, we herein propose the concept of business entity warehouse which builds a decision support system based on business entities. The business entity concept was introduced in the information system domain to bring together business operations and business data in a natural way. The business entity warehouse we introduce offers an integrated view of the four business perspectives of the enterprise (functional, behavioural, informational and organizational), and it provides for the analysis of the influence of the business process on the transactional data and vice versa. This paper presents a method to construct business entity warehouses from business entities extracted from IS and business process models.