A System Implementation: Point-of-Sales (POS) System Integrated with Business Intelligence (BI) Capability Focused on SME in Indonesia

Abstract

This paper is about a project to implement a model of point-of-sale (POS) system equipped with Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities that suits the nature of business organisations in the scope of Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) in Indonesia). The project was developed based on proposed framework integrating Point-Of-Sales System, Databases, Visualization Tools namely Microsoft Power BI and its other relevant libraries. Overtime, SMEs in Indonesia have generated large volumes of data from their business operations. The SMEs need to be able to efficiently manage and analyze large volumes of data to provide better business decision making. Effective decision making shall help SMEs achieve competitive advantage. This is where Business Intelligence (BI) comes to light to provide insightful information to facilitate the business decision making process.