Excellent video on the History of BI

[James Beresford]

Click here to access a funny and accurate 10 minute video on The History of BI from Nic Smith of Microsoft. It’s not a Microsoft puff piece (not until the last 30 seconds, anyway, which is forgivable) - which again drives home the message that seems to slowly being worked out by BI professionals that BI is a people driven business process, not an IT driven system. (This topic seems to be getting thrashed about on some of the LinkedIn groups I frequent, as BI Vendors using it for marketing are getting a deserved kick in the pants for being too tech focused)

Anyway, watch, enjoy. (via: Oz Analytics, but for some reason that particular page kept killing my browser, so I went to source)



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[Steve Bennett]

Glad you enjoyed the clip from Microsoft but sorry the Oz Analytics blog killed your browser.

Maybe it is the quicktime video format?

Steve

[James_Beresford]

Possibly, it nuked both IE & Firefox so is probably a specific to my machine.

As an aside, it's probably worth putting a warning on these comments that they don't feed back to the actual blogs.

[admin]

I will look to see if there is someway to have comments automatically fed back to you/your blog.

This may be a technical limitation of the forum software.

Steve