From my perspective in accounting it's very interesting to contrast the discipline of BI with managerial accountancy.

It has a similar length of formal history and covers exactly the same scope. It could be an indication that accountantancy as a profession have dropped the ball.

It seems painful to see how little accountancy has developed since Luca Pacioli first published a guide to double entry bookeeping in 1494.

Seriously accountants should be all over the discipline of database administration but I don't see them.