Technology Vs Business Needs in Business Intelligence Projects

This article presents the development of a real industry business intelligence project, in a company that used an ERP system. We have focused on the main factors that influenced and affected the project development and it analyses the system evolution from technical point of view, the solutions found to fulfill the changing requirements, but also the impact of the company reorganization on the project. This particular experience can be of use to all those who are involved in building business intelligence solutions to reveal some of success factors, to prevent or to solve some of the inherent problems related to this type of projects.