B-SIGHT: Business Intelligence Tool for Online Home-Based Entrepreneurs

This paper focus on the study on the problem and issue faced by the online home-based
business entrepreneurs in handling and recording their historical business data. The scope of
study is mainly focusing on the online home-based business owner in Malaysia that uses the
social media sites as a platform to promote and conduct their business. This further justify
through review of literature on the characteristics of a home-based business, the importance of
using data for business growth and the overview of business intelligence tools. Methodology
conducted throughout the project is agile method that is divided into planning, analysis and
requirement gathering, designing and documenting data, development of prototype and also
the evaluation stage. As a result, this project paper presents a business intelligence application
that can support online home-based business entrepreneur in Malaysia through presenting a
business performance report from business data analysis.