Published: 2025-08-01
Business Intelligence and Decision Support to Enhance Decision-Making Quality in Higher Education
DOI: 10.35870/ijsecs.v5i2.4273
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Abstract
The availability of accurate and reliable data is essential for organizational sustainability. Business intelligence (BI) enhances an organization's ability to analyze challenges, support decision-making, and improve performance. The term “Business Intelligence System” refers to applications and technologies that facilitate BI activities, including data collection, storage, access, and analysis—thus providing insights into performance and aiding informed decisions. These activities include decision support systems, querying, reporting, OLAP, statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining. BI applications encompass reporting tools, analytics platforms, dashboards, alerts, and portals, and involve technologies such as data integration, quality management, warehousing, and content analysis. Accordingly, a Business Intelligence System can function as a Decision Support System. This study uses SPSS version 17 for data analysis to evaluate the impact of BI and decision support on decision-making quality in colleges in Jakarta and Bekasi. ANOVA (F-test) results show an F-value of 117.041, exceeding the F-table value of 3.29, with a significance of 0.000 < α = 0.05. Since the calculated F-value surpasses the critical value and the significance level is below 0.05, the null hypothesis is rejected. Thus, BI and decision support significantly and simultaneously influence decision-making quality (Y). These findings highlight the essential role of BI and decision support in improving decision-making within higher education institutions.
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Business Intelligence ; Decision Support System ; Decision Making
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This article has been peer-reviewed and published in the International Journal Software Engineering and Computer Science (IJSECS). The content is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Issue: Vol. 5 No. 2 (2025)
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Section: Articles
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Published: %750 %e, %2025
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License: CC BY 4.0
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Copyright: © 2025 Authors
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DOI: 10.35870/ijsecs.v5i2.4273
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Syamsiah Syamsiah
Universitas Indraprasta PGRI, South Jakarta City, Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia
Agus Darmawan
Universitas Indraprasta PGRI, South Jakarta City, Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia
Halimatusa'diah Halimatusa'diah
Universitas Indraprasta PGRI, South Jakarta City, Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia
Reko Syarif Hidayatullah
Universitas Indraprasta PGRI, South Jakarta City, Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia
Nasrulloh Isnain
Universitas Indraprasta PGRI, South Jakarta City, Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia
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