COMBINING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE WITH CLOUD COMPUTING TO DELIVERY AGILITY IN ACTUAL ECONOMY

The present economic crisis experienced by all the states of the world orients more and more the information technology industry towards efficiency. One of the instruments that can provide efficiency to an organization is Cloud Computing. At the same time, any organization is striving to become intelligent and to achieve competition advantages through the use of a Business Intelligence (BI) solution. The present paper presents aspects of the mix BI and Cloud Computing, putting the stress on the integration of a Cloud BI solution within organizations. Also, the opportunity of using a Cloud BI solution is analyzed in contrast with that of using a traditional BI solution, through the ROI indicator.