Tue 2 May 2006
A Report is a Report is a Report is a Report
Posted by Christian Donner under Business Intelligence , OSBI , Open Source , Open Source Business Intelligence[3] Comments
There has been one single thing that I could not get out of my mind ever since I started entrenching myself in research about Open Source Business Intelligence for a conference talk. I am talking about what kind of products should be considered “Business Intelligence” in a wider sense, and what shouldn’t. I learned from Wikipedia that Howard Dresner coined the term “BI” in 1989 to “describe a set of concepts and methods to improve business decision-making by using fact-based support systems”. This is a fairly wide definition, but arguably, your operating system should not be included in this set of concepts and methods. Jasper Reports* should not, either.
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