25 Years Of Progress

25 YEARS OF PROGRESS With this issue we celebrate the 25th anniversary of our Journal, and refl ect on where we were and where we are now. Much has changed since we started the Journal. Technology has changed and so have the forecasting methodologies. Senior management has become more supportive. Collaboration both within the company and outside is rising, and for good reason. Forecasting software developers have come up with software and systems that are much more agile, scalable, powerful, and faster. The Institute of Business Forecasting has launched a fi rst-of-its-kind program to certify forecasters. In fact, the whole forecasting landscape has dramatically changed. Our Journal over the years refl ects these changes. The advancement in technology has helped us in a number of ways. It has improved data processing, data accessibility, data warehousing, and data mining. Data can now be entered, exchanged, messaged, and analyzed quickly and accurately. With EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) and Web-based technology, data can be obtained from any part of the globe in matter of minutes, if not seconds. Data warehousing has enabled us to store a large amount of data ...