The Incorporation of Business Intelligence with Enterprise Resource Planning in SMEs

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are essential tools for business innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), supporting almost all tasks, which allows to obtain large amounts of structured and unstructured data for future data analysis, which helps to facilitate decision making. Being portuguese business essentially composed of SMEs, it is important to invest in solutions that integrate decision making in ERPs, adapting them to change processes. Through literature review, such as conference articles and magazines, critical factors were defined that influence the choice of ERPs by SMEs, the benefits of incorporation with Business Intelligence that assumes a fundamental role in the current competitive environment and a comparison between several tools of BI.