Organizations that successfully adopt self-service BI tools like Power BI have cultures that encourage and reward the use of data. Building a data culture solves common problems, and it is valuable to understand those problems - and where they came from.

This video provides a brief history of business intelligence, painting with a broad brush the evolution of BI tools, and how new problems have emerged as technology is developed to solve existing problems.

For additional details to accompany this video, check out the blog post at https://ssbipolar.com/2020/07/27/data-culture-a-brief-history-of-business-intelligence

For the introduction to this series on building a data culture, see https://ssbipolar.com/2020/01/06/building-a-data-culture

For more Power BI and data culture content, check out the BI Polar blog at https://ssbipolar.com/.

Intro/outro music by Diablo Swing Orchestra https://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Diablo_Swing_Orchestra/The_Butchers_Ballroom/Zodiac_Virtues

Sword logo artwork by Beth Hammer http://www.bethhammer.com/