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From Green Screens to General Intelligence
Forty Years of Executive Decision Support — and What Comes Next.
For four decades, every wave of enterprise software has tried to close the same gap between the data inside a Fortune 500 company and the decisions made by the people running it. The window from 2025 through 2027 is the first time the technical preconditions for closing that gap are simultaneously in place.
In this 14-page paper, we trace the full arc — from EIS terminals to embedded analytics to the agentic platforms emerging now — and lay out a four-path decision framework for executives evaluating their options.
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Takeaway
Four decades of pattern,
one inflection.
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A historical map of executive decision tools
From Comshare Commander to o9, what each generation solved and what it left broken.
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The four forces converging in 2025–2027
Why this technical moment is genuinely different from the marketing cycles that preceded it.
003
The Enterprise Operations Platform, defined
A new category for the multi-system, prescriptive, executive-grade decision layer.
003
A four-path decision framework
DIY · Systems integrator · Wait for SaaS · AI-native vertical. The trade-offs of each, with timelines.
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