Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence

This paper explains the nature of integration between knowledge management (KM) and Business Intelligence (BI). There has been some confusion as to the relationship between KM and BI. BI mainly focuses on explicit knowledge، but KM encompasses both tacit and explicit knowledge. Both of them promote learning، decision- making and understanding. KM influences BI through organizational knowledge creation، knowledge transfer and learning. Therefore، this paper defines BI as a part of KM by evaluating importance of their integration. As this relationship improves right decision-making in organizations and their performance because of the rise and fall of the economic environment، enterprises need to adjust their policies and strategies rapidly in order to respond to sophistication of competitors، customers and suppliers. Information is known as the main key for enterprises so integrating Business Intelligence and Knowledge management are used not only for saving suitable information for enterprise but also for improving performance and process of activities in organizations.