摘要:Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) have long been the backbone of nearly everyregional economy in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) and employment. According toEurostat data, SMBs employ 95 percent of the EU's work force and account for more than 50percent of GDP.Despite this challenging environment, the EU′s SMEs started to bounce back after the sectorhad been hit by the recession in 2009. The number of SMEs in the EU remained at the 2009level with a total of 20.8 million. This stabilization followed b y a considerable decline innumbers (-2.1 percent) in 2009. The combined gross value added (GVA) of SMEs grewstrongl y by 3.4 percent after a decline of 6.4 percent in 2009.Due to their small size and lean structures, SME are potentially more dynamic than bigenterprises, which makes them particularly important for job creation. But they are also morevulnerable, lacking often access to capital and to funding sources
关键词:SME; BI; business performance; dashboards; BI tools