The Role of Business Intelligence in Municipalities Financial Management

Organizational culture refers to a set of common patterns and rather enduringvalues and beliefs in an organization. Therefore, it is claimed that any type of study,changes, and fundamental reforms in an organization are possible just throughbecoming cognizant of all dimensions of the culture of the very organization.With regard to the importance attached to financial issues in increasing the levelof social welfare, today’s managers are mostly after acquiring techniques andnew teachings in the field of business and financial resources. To this end, gettinghelp from innovative personnel and utilizing modern systems seems necessary.Nowadays, the advancement in IT and the cities inclination to turning intoelectronic cities have caused municipalities to move towards creating efficientinfrastructure for IT, like database systems, in a way that, over different times,urban managers, operating different database systems, make efforts to acquireproper knowledge about the current process in their own systems. Businessintelligence, as a system for planning in organizational culture, facilitatingdecision-making process, a factor which investigates, in all layers of management,issues related to cost reduction, income increase, and satisfaction level, is to beknown as operational solution. The current article, which is descriptive, methodwise,and applied, purpose-wise, firstly, explicates the concept of businessintelligence, and then draws on its design and implementation. Besides, the effectof business intelligence on financial management, business intelligence, andfinancial management in municipalities, especially in the municipality of Tehran,are expounded. The results indicate that the system of business intelligence, basedon its capabilities, can have effective and practical outcomes for the managementof financial resources in municipalities.