Fifteen years ago, in January 1997, our company, Panorama Software, was acquired by Microsoft during its entry into the business intelligence space. That was a long time ago. In fact, it was so long ago, I’m not sure that business intelligence was even called BI. Back then our mission and strategy were simple, accompanied by the short but effective slogan “OLAP for the masses.” For the most part that mission hasn’t changed over the years. We’ve simply focused on different aspects of the product that would deliver us the “masses.”.
