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One of the necessary conditions to align management of the SMEs in Romania to the requirements and existing standards of the EU market is the rapid integration of the latest trends in ICT. The main requirement that must be satisfied in this context, is the transition from the informational society to the one based on knowledge, by implementing specific technologies such as ERP, SCM, CRM, document and workflow management, quality management in IT , eBusiness, eLearning and other techniques for working in Internet platforms. ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning is a business management concept representing the efficiency activity, productivity optimization and minimizing the procedures for carrying out services of an organization in a unified system through proper planning of its resources

In the new society we all live in, new types of resources have become a priority, namely information and knowledge and tangible products have been replaced by intangible ones. Thus, in the information society, any modern organization cannot perform without enjoying real-time, correct and coherent information all together. This task is part of the information system which is responsible with processing, transmitting, memorizing and providing information. Therefore, in order for an organization to cope with a competitive environment affected by the economic crisis, it should integrate modern information technologies into its business.

In recent decades, all studies have shown that information, based on modern information technologies, have gained particular importance is seen as a strategic resource necessary for the development of the resource, which is sometimes considered more important than raw materials or energy. The impact of information technology on various areas of human and economic life is so great that it speaks of a new phase in the evolution of society, namely: information society. Field studies show that information technology industry is one of the largest in the world and more than that have a tendency to increase in continuity.

In the current economic condition, performance of an organization depends on and is conditional on the quality and timeliness of decisions made by managers. Making the best decisions implies a large amount of data that enables the development of complex analysis. Obtaining this amount of data is possible because of a powerful system, providing users fast in presenting data and provide opportunities for complex analysis and tentative. Thus, data warehouses and Tuesday in support of economic organizations to store such large amounts of data, to ensure analysis and extraction tools necessary and relevant information for decision making.

Basically, the smooth running of any organization is provided by decisions that are taken in time, decisions that are correct as long as based on data and information on which to base those decisions. Data warehouses are the product of advanced technology and economic environment. On the one hand, the economic environment is increasingly competitive, global and complex and requires information developed for supporting The strategic decisions and on the other hand, developments in information technology provides solutions for efficient management of large volumes of data integrated. Most industry specialists believe that the data warehouse (data marts) and OLAP tools provide the necessary support to transform large volumes of data that companies working in information useful to decision makers.

Current economic context marked by economic crisis, has the effect of reducing costs and greater control over costs. It is a problem faced by all managers and a solution to anti-crisis measures such as using data mining techniques. Data mining or "knowledge discovery in large databases" is a set of techniques used to discover valuable information from large volumes of data unknown .Data mining techniques are used in many fields, one which lends itself particularly well to the economy. Uncertainty facing the economy makes use of data mining techniques are more important now as it assumes that there are many advantages, brings both knowledge and management level in their area of activity.

Most specialists believe that there is no Enterprise Resource Planning without any financial and accounting information in the operations they administer in these systems. A financial-accounting pattern gathers and strengthens information related to all the activities of a company thus allowing unitary management to be possible. A financialaccounting pattern itself is not the most important but it is necessary when implementing any ERP application. All the data in a system are centralized in such a financial-accounting pattern, therefore providing the support for various reports. The word integration is very common nowadays, whether we talk about integration in the European Union or other structure, whether we talk about economic integration applications.

Given the national context, but also international economic crisis, businesses are seeking the highest returns. Why would a business franchise win a bet? Because franchising is the most dynamic and powerful method practiced for business development and economic opportunity and the franchisee has the opportunity to become its own franchise architect of the scheme and detailed plan of procedures. Franchising remains a good recipe for business and crisis. What have changed because of economic difficulties are preferences Romanian entrepreneurs in this field. Thus, if two years before they were attracted to foreign brands, "business is now looking for not much money out of pocket and be easy to operate, that will not last too long before we can open a unit "believes Constantin Anton, president of the Romanian Franchise Association.