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The global Business Intelligence (BI) market grew by 10% in 2013 according to the Gartner Report. BI has been the top implementation priority for organizations for many years now. Today organizations require better use of data and analytics to support their business decisions. Internet power and business trend changes have provided a broad term - Big Data. To be able to handle it and leverage a value of having access to Big Data, organizations have no other choice than to get proper systems implemented and working. However traditional methods are not efficient for changing business needs. Long time between project start and go-live causes a gap between initial solution blueprint and actual user requirements in the end of the project. This article presents the latest market trends in BI systems implementation by comparing Agile with traditional methods. It presents a case study provided in a large telecommunications company (20K employees) and the results of a pilot research provided in the three large companies telecommunications, digital and insurance. Both studies prove that Agile methods might be more effective in BI projects from an end-user perspective and give first results and added value in a much shorter time compared to a traditional approach. Organizations often do not have a clear vision of BI requirements. Thus users ask for changes just before a BI product readiness, which Agile ensures in contradiction to traditional methods.

In this article we would like to present the significance and problems related to the realization of projects for creating a national dissemination system. It is recommended to use BI systems including the management dashboard to manage the project of building and using the system. Created in Poland, SYNAT system aims at disseminating scientific and technical information to vast audience both in Poland and abroad. The article is also concerned with issues connected with using the Open Access concept. We believe that accepting this concept is a necessary condition in building such system. The article analyses BI solutions which seem to be the most suitable for use in such projects. Using the evaluations of experts a comparative analysis of solutions in commercial use was also carried out. The results of the analysis show that it is difficult to provide a clear answer regarding the usefulness of the analyzed tools. Nevertheless, four systems were chosen: SAP Business Objects Enterprise XI, Microsoft BI tools (integrated BI offering), Oracle Enterprise BI Server, QlikView, which should undergo more detailed analysis depending on the conditions of a given project. Both authors of the article participate in the SYNAT project. Jerzy Kisielnicki has been responsible for the recommendation of the project management tool and Anna Maria Misiak has carried out the tool research and evaluation highlighting the most adequate solutions for project usage.