ISSN 2039-2117 (online) ISSN 2039-9340 (print) Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences MCSER Publishing, Rome-Italy Vol 7 No 3 S2 May 2016 9 Study the Effect of Economic Factors on Business Intelligence: Case Study Iran Khodro Technology in Tehran Province Omidali Adeli Financial Economics assistant professor, Qom University, iran. o.adeli@qom.ac.ir Elham Hoseinzadeh Fazel Author corresponding: MSc student of commercial management, University of Tehran Fahimeh Sadat Khatami MSc student of commercial management, University of Tehran Behnoush Ghasemi MSc student of commercial management, University of Tehran Doi:10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n3s2p9 Abstract The main objective of this study is to investigate the effect of economic factors on the business intelligence in Iran Khodro industry in Tehran Province. The statistical population of the research, Iran Khodro industry employees in Tehran is 20731 people. The sample quantity was obtained 378 people by using Cochran’s formula. In order to collect data, the researcher made questionnaire, economic factors and the standard questionnaire, business intelligence were used. The questionnaire validity was confirmed by professionals or experts and reliability of the questionnaires was assessed by using Cronbach's alpha. After completing the questionnaire, in order to analyze the data, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, and one sample t-test were used. In this study it is found that inflation, exchange rates, interest rate variables is effective on the business intelligence in Iran Khodro industry of Tehran Province. Keywords: economic factors, inflation, exchange rate, interest rate, the business intelligence Introduction 1. One of the most important types of intelligence that is very important in the business environment for the organizational senior managers is the business intelligence. Business intelligence would be useful as an effective tool in improving the decision-making process in any organization. In the past, business intelligence for profitable private companies has performance, but recently, it has been used in governmental agencies. Business intelligence has been accepted as a tool to design and effective management of the system life cycle along with supporting the intelligent decisions. As an accurate and up to date systemic approach such as, business intelligence can have a significant impact on the efficiency and the performance of organizations, many below factors could affect the business intelligence. In this research, it will be tried to identify, extract and prioritize some effective economic factors on business intelligence and it will be studied the rate and the impact of each one on business intelligence. Changes in inflation can be measured by using the Consumer Price Index and other index changes. Suppose that due to inflation, commodity prices somewhat increases more than the price in other countries. As a result, exports will decrease and imports will increase, and consequently, the exchange demand curve shifts to the right and on the one hand, due to the reduction in exports, the supply curve will move to the left and therefore the exchange rate increases. The exchange rate is one of the important variables in the economic system and the price determined in exports and imports and in countries such as Iran that the major source of government revenue is provided for foreign exchange revenue caused by importing the mineral materials, the importance of the exchange rate is much higher. Exchange rate, as an important key variable, includes the effects of changes and foreign relations of economic on domestic economies variables and its impact on other macroeconomic variables is important. The exchange rate is determining the business process, capital flows and foreign direct investment, inflation,