Overview: Managing an organization requires access to information in order to monitor the organization activities and assess its performance. Indeed, the increasing demand for information plus the growing data volumes and customer populations can pose problems to the organization. A way to tackle these issues can be found in Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, which provide organizations with timely and integrated information that is crucial to the understanding of the business environment and customer needs. These solutions, usually in the form of BI systems allow the organizations to gather, store, access and analyze corporate data sources for business planning and decision-making. Academic institutions, an example of these organizations, require information too for planning their academic resources and achieving academic excellence.

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Overview: The business intelligence is no longer only in the domain of business. Despite its name it can be vital for education institutions as well as for businesses. This paper presents some views of business intelligence in education. First, there is mentioned the possibility to extend the traditional business intelligence, that is concerned mainly with sales and regions, of education component that would connect the performance to education and learning. Second, the use of business intelligence in universities is highlighted and some criteria for analysis using business intelligence tools are presented.

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