tailieunhanh - Business Platform for Multilingualism - Report for the period September 2009-June 2011

Demand for Business Intelligence (BI) applications continues to grow even at a time when demand for most information technology (IT) products is soft [Soejarto, 2003; Whiting, 2003]. Yet, information systems (IS) research in this field is, to put it charitably, sparse. While the term Business Intelligence is relatively new, computer-based business intelligence systems appeared, in one guise or other, close to forty years ago. 1 BI as a term replaced decision support, executive information systems, and management information systems [Thomsen, 2003]. With each new iteration, capabilities increased as enterprises grew ever-more sophisticated in their computational and analytical needs and as. | Business Platform for Multilingualism Report for the period September 2009-June 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS Section Origins of and background to the Purpose - aims - objectives - Composition of the Range of responsibility - governance - Section The Business Platform for Multilingualism - a courageous The Business Platform and related Commission Consultation with other Commission and external The Platform s Mission The CELAN Business Platform membership Section Possible future orientation of business-oriented multilingual Language and multilingualism in European Business Platform initiatives in this policy Continuing language initiatives for 2 Section 1 Origins of and background to the initiative The Business Platform for Multilingualism BPfM was set up by the European Commission Directorate-General for Education and Culture DG EAC in summer 2009. For the past ten years the European Union notably the European Commission has stressed the importance of multilingual competence to increased opportunities on the labour market and the contribution of language skills to the competitiveness of the EU economy. A clear signal to this effect was sent by the 2002 Barcelona Council which under the heading A competitive economy based on knowledge called for the teaching of at least two foreign languages from a very early age . The message was taken up in the Commission s 2005 Communication A New Framework Strategy for Multilingualism COM 2005 596 final in the wake of which the Commission had a a study prepared on the impact on the European economy of shortages of language skills - the ELAN study published in 2006. Subsequently the European Commission set up a Business Forum for Multilingualism. In its final report entitled Languages mean business - Companies work better with languages 2008 the Forum made a number of