Business Intelligence Status Report
Olin Thompson & P.J. Jakovljevic - June 27, 2005

History and Current Status

Economic and regulatory pressures have made a broad set of technologies called business intelligence (BI), more important than ever for all enterprise application users. Users rarely feel satisfied with the amount of information they can extract, if they can extract any at all, from their enterprise applications. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) and BI (sometimes called analytics, which is specialized analytical software) are inseparable concepts, but they have taken different trajectories and evolved differently...