Enterprise Resource Planning and Business Intelligence: The Importance of Integration

The advancement of information and communications technologies (ICT) has signi cantly intensi ed market competition the world over. One of the most widespread solutions is the use of enterprise resource planning systems that has proved to support the integration and automation of the processes, the improvement of the performance, and the reduction of costs. ERP involves the planning and managing of the organization‘s resources in the most ef cient, productive, and pro table manner. Also, business intelligence is a key means to promote core competence of enterprise. business intelligence is a set of technologies that facilitate the collection, integration and analysis of data within a rm, thus enabling the decision-making process. The system of ERP and BI integrated can enhance and improve the ability of companies to decision-making. Thus, The purpose of this paper is to discuss the importance of ERP and BI and Integration of ERP and BI.

Enterprise Resource Planning, Business Intelligence, Critical Success Factors