Foreword
When the authors of this guide kindly asked me to write a foreword to this book, I saw a great opportunity to thank all those who over the years have used and supported TM1. When I decided to embark on this venture back in 1983, I thought the concepts and features of TM1 would be obvious to all and that its success would be fast and furious, almost explosive, and that my main concern was going to be fending off competitors who, along with users, would flock to the idea. Although I was right about what TM1 can do for users and organizations, to this day I marvel at how wrong I was about the speed with which it has been adopted. For this ...