A brief history of BI

Q&A: Howard Dresner coined the term 'business intelligence' in 1989. Now Hyperion's chief strategy officer, at that time he was a Gartner analyst. Dresner spoke with China Martens of the IDG News Service for this interview about how BI has grown in the past 17 years, what has hindered BI adoption, and how different industries stack up in terms of usage.

Podcasts: Oliver Rist is comin' at you from Interop NYC where he not only reveals one secret about Brad Pitt, but also goes-a-rantin' about where the WAFS standard truly is. Listen to Emerging Enterprise.

Columnists' corner: Fulfilling his geo-penance brings David Margulius to Prague and Italy, into the latter of which he takes a deep dive on the state of IT in that country. "The problem for Italian CIOs is that you can't think outside the box if your bosses don't care what's outside the box," he writes in Driving IT innovation abroad.

The news beat: Security experts are giving Microsoft credit for improving its software. The U.S. Commerce Department says that 1,137 laptops have been lost, 249 of which housed personal data. And AOL sells off AOL France.

Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 22, 2006 10:52 AM