Business Intelligence in contemporary enterprise

Abstract

Companies are searching for IT solutions to improve management process. Increasingly information re-sources are regarded as the key determinant to make appropriate decisions, that have impact on strategic position of the company. Functions including acquisition, gathering, processing and delivering of information support optimal company management. There are many IT solutions supporting enterprise management available on the market. Business analysis tools transforming data into useful information have developed dynamically in recent years. They are known today as Business Intelligence. The aim of this article is to present various functions of BI system. The article describes datawarehouse, data mining and data drilling, among other things. Author compares transaction and analytical systems. Finally, an example of implemen-tation of BI in the Berendsen Textile Services company is presented.