Business intelligence from e -connotations to technological trends

This article shows most of the E -connotations when approaching the Business Intelligence (BI) field not just as methodology but also as practical implementations meant to serve as a support for organizational decisions. In the last part of the paper the focus is moved to nowadays technological possibilities and trends related to Business Intelligence. Some aspects as the specificity of BI applications, their promises, the problem of real-time response and some other limitations and resolved issues related to their capability to respond to ad-hoc organizational changes by changing their behaviour and feed-back are taken into consideration.