Acknowledgments

A well-known African proverb says, “I am but a man because of other men,” which is so right for this book. So many clients, colleagues, friends, and even totally unrelated people have contributed to this book that I will certainly forget to thank many of them. So, if your name is not on the list, send me an e-mail at bert@ba4bi.com and I will list your name in the next edition.

The first men on this planet who led me to the technical aspects of Business Intelligence were Christian Heusquin, who combined studies on renewable energy with theories on decision support systems in the early 1980s, and Gert-Jan Van Oers, head of the analysis department at Neckermann mail-order, but the man who really widened my technical view of ...

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