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Nic,

Having done some (much more basic) videos with commentary, I can appreciate just how much work must have gone into this.

As you know, my review of your work is at: http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/a-review-of-the-history-of-business-intelligence-by-nic-smith/

Peter

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Hi Nic. Nice presentation! Informative and entertaining. :)

The only part that left me wanting was the end. How do we "fix" business intelligence?

In today's agile world, I've yet to find a good substitute for well thought out design and hard work. I'm interested in utilizing the MS sweet of products (which we own) but would like to get more info on an approach.

Jim

Nic,

Thank you for your email, this was definitely an interesting video. To be technical you have forgotten some very important companies across the video.

Starting BI companies you missed Metaphor, Metaphor Consulting Service (which became Information Advantage) and Information Advantage. Also not sure I saw MicroStrategy at this stage. some of the companies from the 'early days' did not exist in the early 90's e.g. Informatica.

"BI vendors mostly wound up here" Big 4. This may be true, but is misses powerful products from independent vendors like Microstrategy, IBI, and SAS.

Still not sure my mum would quite understand BI from this, but she may understand what I have been doing all these years.

Peter.

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Hi Nic

I watched this, this and that

The history was here and there

And here again

Sometimes those hard 4 syllable words

"Intuitive" -- but not so

but was it?

Not really so

Kinda ancient

Not in a gross way

Really missed this and that and the other thing

And that other book too

And this company

And what that guy said

U Know

Too bad

U can do better

Yes you can.

Hi Nic

This is a lot of fun and very accessible to laymen like myself -great effort!  I would love to see your take on data analysis in the data warehouse in a similar intelligent, quirky format :)

Hello Everyone, From time to time I'm on the hunt for new materials to introduce the BI field to