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BI Terminology

• The Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Glossary

The Origin of the Term 'Business Intelligence'

The term "business intelligence" originated in the late 1980's when a Gartner, Inc., consultant, Howard Dresner, used it to describe the set of methods that support sophisticated analytical decision-making aimed at improving business processes.
(from "A Brief History of Decision-Making" by Leigh Buchanen and Andre O'Connell, Harvard Business Review, January 2006)

BI Training

• Preview of Web-based Business Objects
  Shows features of Business Objects XI, including web-based reports, dashboards, filtering, target metric ranges, annotations, predictive analysis, and more. Requires Macromedia Flash Player.