A BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE MADE IN ROMANIA, A SOLUTION FOR ROMANIAN COMPANIES DURING THE ECONOMIC CRISIS EDUARD EDELHAUSER, ANDREEA IONICA, Management Department, University of Petrosani, Petrosani, Romania LUCIAN LUPU - DIMA 27 {Info 98 Computing Centre Company, Siveco Implementer, Petrosani, Romania ‘The paper focuses on & modem prospective TALC sector, which embeds simulation and assistance fools for managerial decisions. The tum of authors studies aspects of this field by using the IT&C methods as management tools, and here we reler to Decision ‘Suppor Systems (DSS), Business Intelligence (BD and Enterprise Resource Planning ERP). In addition, they have been implementing imegrated information systems in Romanian organisations for more than 10 years and they ate now studying the eects that these implementations have induced regarding the management of Romanian ‘organisations. The effects are studied through the efficiency of hard and softvare platforms usage. as wells bythe improvement of operational and strategic manager traning in using tools such 35 DSS or BI, and the taining ofthe human rescutces of Romanian oganisations in the IT&C fe 1. Introduction In the present context of economic crisis, considering our opinion and the managerial one in Eastern Europe regarding the particular case of Romania, one of the solutions for economic revival is constituted by the usage of some advanced management methods, based on IT&C tools and modelling and simulation of the economic and management processes methods that can offer the foundation of high-performance management. ‘The evaluations of the local BI market, carried out by means of the main local implementers indicate an unusual tendency, namely, in the context of a severe reduction of the volume of global sales regarding company informational applications, in 2009 the BI market registered an increase almost & times higher than in 2008, and this trend seems to be maintained in 2010 as wel