Application of business intelligence solutions on manufacturing data

Wide range of software from business intelligence (BI) category are used in almost every big company. They allow users to create various reports and analyses. BI idea was primary used for business data, but now many companies like Wonderware, Rockwell are offering solutions for manufacturing data, so new form of intelligence was formed. It is called Manufacturing intelligence or Enterprise intelligence. This paper deals with idea that normal Business intelligence solutions can be used for basic reporting of manufacturing data that covers wide range of user needs. We used data from the biggest private employer in Slovakia, U.S. Steel in Kosice, and BI solutions named Cognos from IBM and second from Oracle. Results was presented management aimed on new IT solutions.