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Corte dei conti ConosCo The Business Intelligence System of the Italian Court of Audit April, 22-23th 2013

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Corte dei conti The Court of Audit, in line with the Italian Public Administration modernization and innovation strategy, carries out initiatives aimed at: Increasing the efficiency of the judicial and administrative action Improving the delivery of services to citizens Reinforcement its institutional role....through an innovative approach based on the use of ICT Technological innovation in the Court of Audit

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Corte dei conti Inside the italian Court of Audit, the enhancement of technology has followed 3 main areas: investment in information assets, development and evolution of operational information systems investment in business intelligence advanced tools for data analysis use of new methodologies for data analysis and what are the the aims of this? Technological innovation in the Court of Audit

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Corte dei conti osimplification, rationalization and transparency of information otimeliness of data collection and monitoring oDigitalization or dematerialization (using the digital document) ostrengthening instruments for quantitative and qualitative control of revenues and expenditures Aims of Technological innovation in the Court of Audit

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Corte dei conti The project of the business intelligence system Conosco was launched by the President of the Court of Audit in 2008 with the aim of identifying new tools for Public Finance control. Later, the projects objectives and technical/operational requirements were defined in collaboration with IT Department of Italian Court and Consip (a public company particularly skilled in IT) Technological innovation in the Court of Audit: the Business Intelligence System

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Corte dei conti 6 ConosCo as an instrument to monitor public finance 1. controlling and reporting activities on Ministries and other public bodies 2. controlling and reporting activities on local authorities During the last years the Court of Audit has implemented its information technology infrastructure in order to better support its institutional activity, and has started many IT projects mainly concerning : ConosCo the aims

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Corte dei conti The satisfaction of knowledge needs requires the availability of complete, timely and reliable information and a specific IT solution REQUEST: The continuous change of the social, political and economic context poses increasingly new questions, often extemporaneous, and increasingly complex decisions NEED: The solution for addressing those needs and to support decision making, is called... SOLUTION: Business Intelligence Technological innovation in the Court of Audit: Why a Business Intelligence System?

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Corte dei conti Business Intelligence is a set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information. This information is used to enable more effective, strategic, tactical, and operational insights and decision-making, which are necessary for an organization to obtain and analyze data to support decision making and control. What is it? Data Sources Acquisition Processing Presentation Processes Methodologies Software Hardware Statistics How is it done? Storaging Technological innovation in the Court of Audit: the Business Intelligence System

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Corte dei conti A,, time-variant, collection of in support of managements decision-making process. A subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, non-volatile collection of data organised in support of managements decision-making process.* * William (Bill) H. Inmon is considered the "father" of one of the main models of data warehouse What is it? for the Court of Audit that means Public Finance assessment and control Technological innovation in the Court of Audit: the Data Warehouse The beating heart of the system is the Data Warehouse

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