Harnessing the Power of the General Public for Crowdsourced Business Intelligence: A Survey

Bin Guo, Yan Liu, Yi Ouyang, Vincent W. Zheng, Daqing Zhang, Zhiwen Yu

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Abstract

Crowdsourced business intelligence (CrowdBI), which leverages the crowdsourced user-generated data to extract useful knowledge about business and create marketing intelligence to excel in the business environment, has become a surging research topic in recent years. Compared with the traditional business intelligence that is based on the firm-owned data and survey data, CrowdBI faces numerous unique issues, such as customer behavior analysis, brand tracking, and product improvement, demand forecasting and trend analysis, competitive intelligence, business popularity analysis and site recommendation, and urban commercial analysis. This paper first characterizes the concept model and unique features and presents a generic framework for CrowdBI. It also investigates novel application areas as well as the key challenges and techniques of CrowdBI. Furthermore, we make discussions about the future research directions of CrowdBI.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8649614
Pages (from-to)26606-26630
Number of pages25
JournalIEEE Access
Volume7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019

Keywords

  • brand trending
  • commercial site recommendation
  • competitive intelligence
  • consumer behaviors
  • crowd intelligence
  • Crowdsourced business intelligence

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