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2. Business intelligence
2.1 A little history
The search for information, its exploitation and the development of a strategy is a very old concept. Just think of explorers such as Marco Polo or Jean de Mandeville, navigators (Christopher Columbus, Vasco de Gama, Magellan, Jacques Cartier, etc.), 14th-century merchants and so on.
For example, in the field of continental exploration, new lands, any information on cartographic-type geographical data, local populations, languages spoken by local populations, customs, etc., constituted an invaluable data deposit. This was widely coveted and exploited by the governments of countries rich enough to possess a strong navy, such as England, Portugal and the Netherlands. The same is true of Venice, once the...
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