BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE EFFECTIVE SOLLUTIONS OF MANAGEMENT

Business Intelligence (BI) is the most popular concept in today's Decision Support Technologies. BI offer sophisticated information analysis and information discovery technologies (Data Warehouse, OLAP, Data Mining) that are designed to handle and process the complex business information associated with today's business environment. Only a revolutionary Business Intelligence solution, like the proposed portal-based, can solve the complex issues faced when evaluating decision support applications and ensure the availability of any business-critical information. In this paper we recommend some BI solutions in order to create a collaborative business environment. In the last years more and more firms from Romania are facing with a new challenge: the use of Business Intelligence technologies. This challenge comes somehow later than in other countries since a lot of Romanian firms do not have implemented yet an ERP system that could offer a better data repository for the new technology. It is important to mention that Business Intelligence (BI) is not a single application. It consists of a series of components that interact behind the scenes to extract electronic data, assemble it, analyze it and display it in a form that is easy to work with and understand. These components include: a database; an ETL (Extract, Transform and Load data); analytic tools; reporting/querying tools; training.