Recently, a new term has emerged accounting intelligence(AI). The accounting intelligence is a specialist type of business intelligence, an expression meaning a set of technologies used to extract, analyse and present information from accounting and ERP applications. One important difference between classical Bl solutions and AI is in the way information is extracted. At AI, information is directly extracted from the ERP at the time that a query is run. On the contrary, classical BI solutions extract information through a data warehouse or OLAP cube, SAGE offers an interesting solution called Sage Simply Accounting Intelligence which link directly to Sage Simply Accounting system, offering real-time information.
The provision of an holistic view of the enterprise is the most important characteristic of the enterprise architecture. This higher systems integration brings together information from formerly unrelated domains[33]. Among others aspects, an enterprise architecture should provide an integration framework that sits above the individual architectures and the guidelines to define and establish interoperability requirements 134.
Usually, the design of an enterprise architecture strongly depends on the integration of various applications so that they may share information and processes freely. This is usually called by the buzz Enterprise(EAI) 135l. Interoperability characteristics, that is to say, "the ability to share Application Integration accounting information systems be more integrated or embedded with other information and services allow systems, and consequently, be more effective.The extensible Business Reporting Language contributes to purpose. xBRL, a language, i a freely available and global standard for exchanging business information, allowing the expression commonly required in business reporting