Strategy for Selecting a Business Intelligence Solution

Considering the demands imposed by the knowledge society, each organization strives to become an intelligent organization and, by the means of new and innovative Business Intelligence (BI) strategy, to gain a market competition advantage. Therefore, within organizations became apparent the need for proactive, extensible, performance oriented instruments, with stronger impact than conventional reports, score cards, OLAP system and the year 2007 being the start of a new BI era. This paper intends to analyze BI tendencies and the selection strategy for a new BI solution within organizations.