This 10 minute movie takes you through the establishment of business intelligence: its early beginnings, the invention of data warehouses, the establishment of the first data management companies in the 1970s. Light-hearted and sprinkled with the occasional amusing anecdote, this video does a good job of keeping your attention from start to finish.

We bring you 5 lists, each one containing 5 things, relevant to business intelligence!

1. 5 BI and Data Visualization Trends for 2010

One of the more popular entries on our blog, we thought we'd remind you of the 5 BI and data visualization trends we identified for this year.

Our most recent newsletter, released yesterday to subscribers, contains a range of exciting news - from new videos, to details of Bime's most recent update, to a testimony from one of our clients, ArcelorMittal.

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Should BI teams reside on the IT or the business side?

Taking our inspiration for a post from a discussion on the Business Intelligence & Analytics Group on LinkedIn, we thought about whether Business Intelligence should be controlled primarily by the IT department or people from business functions.

Author : Kirsty Lee

You can find the original post here.

A savvy IT professional will ask end users about their requirements, before trying to introduce business intelligence to his or her organization. They will ask questions like: "What information are you looking for?" and "How do you want it to be formatted?".

The compelling business case for the cloud is realized by many IT professionals, but determining the return on investment of a technology such as cloud computing can prove to be difficult for organizations, especially while their cloud practices are still being developed and adopted. Astadia have therefore come up with a new tool to help you calculate you ROI from moving to the cloud.

Read all about it here.

The business software and hardware system provider Oracle has been regularly acquiring new companies to complement their offerings since 2004 - and 2010 has been no exception. This year, having already acquired Silver Creek, Phase Forward, Convergin, AmberPoint and Sun Microsystems, a blog post by Stephen Jannise speculates on who its acquisition campaign will target next.

He has narrowed it down to thirteen potential targets for readers to vote on in his poll, one of which is Salesforce.com, the leading SaaS enterprise cloud computing company. Coming under "Pricey Buys in Hot Markets", I think Salesforce.com is probably a little out of Oracle's reach at this point in time.

Opinions are divided judging by the comments the post has received: with names such as IBM, Google and Yahoo floating around, some are confident that Oracle has the power to capture the market's biggest players. EMC is also a popular choice with the expectation that Oracle would take first place in the data storage business on top of NetApp, and despite not making Jannise's list, NetApp also makes an appearance as a potential acquiree.