Generally speaking, the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have had defining contributions in many fields (e.g. economic, social, science and culture).From the didactic and scientific activities of the candidate it also results a certain interdisciplinary effort evidenced by several fields and themes of scientific interest in connection with which certain solutions and technologies have been implemented.The habilitation thesis can be seen at the same time as a sum of a significant part of the candidate's research activity after the doctoral dissertation (December 12, 2008) entitled "DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS IN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY" at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, confirmed also by the PhD title conferred by the Order of the Minister of Education, Research, Youth and Sports no. 3658 from April 10, 2009.The results of the candidate's research activity have been carefully selected starting from the specificity of the field of Business Information Systems and they can be considered relevant in terms of importance and originality. They have been developed considering four main research areas with a direct correspondent in the names of sub-chapters 1.1.1 - 1.1.4.The content of the habilitation thesis was structured in accordance with the specifications of the Order of the Minister of Education and Scientific Research no. 3121 from January 27, 2015, namely: “ARTICLE NO. 6 (1) The habilitation thesis presents: a) Briefly and in a documented way the main scientific results obtained by the candidate in the scientific, didactic, sporting, artistic, after conferring the PhD title in the field of doctorate concerned, indicating the evolution of the academic, scientific and professional career, as well as the main directions of its development in the global context of the significant and up-to-date scientific achievements in the specialty field of the author of the habilitation thesis; b) The candidate's individual ability to: coordinate research teams, organize and manage teaching activities, explain and facilitate learning and research. (2) The candidate may choose to write the habilitation thesis in Romanian, in which case it will be accompanied by a summary in English or in a foreign language of international wide circulation, in which case it will be accompanied by a summary in Romanian.” Chapter 1 highlights the main results of scientific research obtained through personal contributions grouped in those four directions with a direct correspondent in the names of sub-chapters 1.1.1 - 1.1.4, namely: Development and implementation of on premises and cloud-based interactive simulation tools; Development of interactive tutorials, documentations and emulators; Securing reporting tools by developing custom cryptosystems; Predictive and descriptive and Business Intelligence. Chapter 1 also contains a presentation of some details concerning the relevance, impact and actuality of the aforementioned contributions. Thus, the most relevant publications (after presenting the doctoral thesis) dealing with subjects in the field of economic sciences and business administration, in which the direct results grouped in the four directions above on the theme of “information and communication technologies to support economic decision-making” have been materialized are: a book at a national publisher recognized by UEFISCDI; over 15 articles in BDI indexed journals recognized by UEFISCDI, of which 7 in ERIH + indexed journals; over 10 articles in volumes of international conferences indexed by ISI Thomson Reuters; and 5 articles dealing with topics in the aforementioned field, published in ISI Thomson Reuters indexed journals and having the Article Influence Score (AIS) > 0 of which 2 have the AIS above 0.15 and are in the Science JCR category (multiplier = 6) and the other 3 have the AIS between 0 and 0.15 and are part of the Core Economics JCR category (multiplier = 10).Chapter 1 ends with the presentation of several actual arguments on the candidate's skills in the following areas: team coordination, organization and management of teaching activities as well as explaining and facilitating learning and research.These skills were acquired through involvement in 11 projects (6 of them are of research type from which one of the CNCSIS TD type - director and 5 of human resources development type, 2 of which as assistant manager and 3 as IT expert): Of the 11 above, 8 were held after the doctoral thesis. Of the aforementioned 8, 3 were research projects in which the candidate was involved as assistant manager (ANCS-CNMP PNII project), member (TE UEFISCDI type project - researcher) and director (UAIC internal grant), respectively. Chapter 2 contains a brief history as well as a synthetic projection, both on the academic, scientific and professional career of the candidate. The first part of this subchapter also contains some details related to the master dissertation theses coordinated so far by the candidate. Chapters 3 and 4 contain the conclusions of the paper and the bibliographic elements. This habilitation thesis brings a small contribution to the body of knowledge at least in the following areas: management, statistics, business information systems, decision support systems, business intelligence, databases, programming and computer networks, geographic information systems and educational sciences
