Here is a funny Business Intelligence tribute to the Bubble v1.1 video on youtube
“We Couldn’t Get the Answers”
HP Lune, EF Codd, Chris Date, Stonebrake
APL, Express, Forest and Trees.
Comshare, Pilot, Metaphor, watch out here comes some more:
OLAP, ROLAP, HOLAP, MOLAP now my head hurts.
Ingres, Sybase, DB2, Informix, Oracle, Tandem too
Relational, ODBMS, how about we call it DSS?
EIS, client server, bring on the Web and SQL Server
OLAP for the masses, gents? No, let’s call it business intelligence.
We couldn’t get the answers
The tools took too much learning
For simplicity we’re yearning
We couldn’t get the answers
IT …

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With Lyndsay Wise, the principal of WiseAnalytics, which conducts research and provides services to organizations within the areas of business intelligence, unstructured data and master data management.
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At the strategic level, operational business intelligence (also known as pervasive BI) is about spreading the benefits of Business Intelligence to a wider community of users who are more involved with the day-to-day operations of an organization. On the surface, this would seem to be a simple process of employing existing Business Intelligence tools to users. Unfortunately, at a tactical level, it isn’t that straightforward. The same BI tools that served a highly skilled analyst community are rarely appropriate tools for the broader …