In a rapidly changing economy, Business Intelligence solutions have to become more agile. This paper attempts to discuss some questions which help in creating an agile BI solution such as: What is Agile? Why agile is so well suited for BI? Which are the key elements that promote an agile BI solution? Also, this paper briefly looks at technologies that can be used for enabling an agile BI solution.

Romanian universities face the challenge of implementing learning management systems (LMS) while introducing blended learning (BL) in their academic programs. In order to benefit from this educational concept, it is imperative to determine whether the LMS provides added value to the university. After an extensive literature review, we designed a conceptual model for the LMS success, by combining constructs from previous well-established models and adding the user trust dimension. To test this model, we conducted a case study on the premises of the Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics at The Bucharest University of Economic Studies. The network of determinants was examined for validation and relationships, using structural equation modeling. This paper details our findings with regard to the newly tested hypotheses, with an emphasis on the role of the user trust dimension.

The debate is developed based on the following considerations: 1-Business Intelligence (BI) is unanimous considered the art of gaining business advantage from data; therefore BI systems and infrastructures must integrate disparate data sources into a single coherent framework for real-time reporting and detailed analysis within the extended enterprise; 2-Business Intelligence can be described as a value proposition that helps organizations in their decision-making processes; 3-the Business Intelligence Value Chain represents a "From DATA To PROFIT" approach and is recommended to ground any performance management program. Different aspects, including theoretical considerations and practice examples, regarding location intelligence, mobile BI, cloud-based BI, social BI and collaborative Business Intelligence will be treated, pointing out some of the author's contributions. Nowadays, organizations have adopted more prudent policies requiring a financial justification for nearly every IT initiative, including Business Intelligence system implementations. A business-driven methodology is recommended in any BI project management approach, project scoping and planning being vital for the project success. A business-driven approach of a BI project implementation starts with a feasibility study. The decision-making process for large projects is very complicated, and will not be subject of this paper. Having in mind a middle-sized BI project, a feasibility study based on the Monte Carlo simulation method will be conducted.

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In an e-commerce performance framework is important to identify the key performance indicators that measure success and together provide the greatest context into the business performance. Shopping carts are an essential part of ecommerce, a minimal set of key performance indicators being the subject of our debate. The theoretical approach is sustained by a case study, an e-shop implemented using PHP and MySQL, for simulating main business processes within the considered performance framework. Our approach opens a perspective for future research using additional indicators in order to properly evaluate the global performance of any e-shop.

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