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Self-Service BI vs Traditional BI: What’s Next?

Alation

Business intelligence has a long history. How will moving to true self-service business intelligence — and achieving data democracy — impact your organization? A Short History of Business Intelligence. Modern business intelligence starts at the dawn of digital computing. Parting Words.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

Domino Data Lab

Note that data warehouse (DW) and business intelligence (BI) practices both emerged circa 1990. My read of that narrative arc is that some truly weird tensions showed up circa 2001: Arguably, it’s the heyday of DW+BI. A very big mess since circa 2001, and now becoming quite a dangerous mess. Disconnects, in a nutshell.