BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION

In order to steer their internal organization, companies are experiencing mountains of data need to obtain information about the processes and people within the organization, the companies' environment, and other factors that influence their business. Business Intelligence (BI) provides support for delivering this information and helps organizations achieve this focus giving the complete vision to learn from the past, monitor the present and gain an inside into the future. Nowadays, on the market there is a wide range of software rather included in the term "umbrella", products that are nothing but a combination of decision support systems, query and reporting tools, online analytical processing (OLAP) and also, forecasting and data mining systems. To discover at first hidden information that are received from a data warehouse, BI uses a variety of algorithms to establish relationships between different data and variables. The effectiveness of these tools is quite high given that have began to appear BI solutions that not only serve the economic profile organizations but also other types of organizations to which we wouldn't think like education. In this article we propose to prove that Business Intelligence solutions can be successfully used also in education. Educational environment need this software because Business Intelligence combines data gathering, data storage, and knowledge management with analytical tools to present complex, useful and competitive information about students, results, performance and interesting correlations between different educational variables. BI solutions include the latest and most advanced technologies to support decision making and covers all information resources necessary to support decisions. They allow the models offered to make calculations and highlight the knowledge, while the final decision-maker appreciates' reporting to reality and taking decision, even in education.