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re: History of Business Intelligence

PeterJThomas — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:01:15 GMT

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

re: History of Business Intelligence

rafats — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:10:38 GMT

can not see the picture, please check the path.

re: History of Business Intelligence

JimGarbely — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:11:29 GMT

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

re: History of Business Intelligence

nismith — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:34:49 GMT

Thanks for watching, glad you liked it. Stay tuned for more details on how we "fix" business intelligence.

Nic

re: History of Business Intelligence

pgiblett — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:26:08 GMT

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.

http://cio-perspectives.com/

re: History of Business Intelligence

marktab — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:19:06 GMT

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.

re: History of Business Intelligence

analyticsgirl — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:44:16 GMT

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 :)

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BeI - Microsoft Business Intelligence — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:44:29 GMT

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