Brief History of Business Intelligence

The earlier tools designed for query and reporting were sold as do-it-yourself solutions. That was the way of Business Intelligence until in the mid1970s, when several business intelligence vendors began offering tools that allowed even a non-programmer to plunge into the world of data access and analysis.  In the 21st Century we live in the information age. Before the Information companies had to collect their information by hand, from non-automated sources. Those were the days that businesses lacked any type of sophisticated computing resources to enable them to properly analyze data. Years ago end computer users had to wait for their systems, for programming changes, and even for reports. They spent most of their time waiting for results. It is no secret that this time could have been better spent in analysis.