A Brief History of Business Intelligence

This is an “intelligent” (pardon the pun!) and entertaining look at what exactly business intelligence is. I rather like it.

Looks like it’s an “ad” by a microsoftie – but this is the kind of marketing I really like!

Hubert Lee, The Dashboard Spy

PS. Here is a link to the Transcript of “A Brief History of BI“.

Here’s a bit from it:

History of Business Intelligence – Presentation Transcript

What is Business Intelligence? A brief history of Business Intelligence
Where have we been?
Where are we now?
Where are we going?
Why should you care?
What is Business Intelligence?
According to
The Definition of Business Intelligence is… Skills, knowledge, technologies, applications, quality, risks, security issues and practices used to help a business to acquire a better understanding of market behavior and commercial context. For this purpose it undertakes the collection, integration, analysis, interpretation and presentation of business information. By extension, \”business intelligence\” may refer to the collected information itself or the explicit knowledge developed from the information.
WHAT?
The Definition of Business Intelligence is… Skills, knowledge, technologies, applications, quality, risks, security issues and practices used to help a business to acquire a better understanding of market behavior and commercial context. For this purpose it undertakes the collection, integration, analysis, interpretation and presentation of business information. By extension, \”business intelligence\” may refer to the collected information itself or the explicit knowledge developed from the information.
Still confused?
BI seems hard

And so on….