TM1 Fanboy is an independent publication about the history of enterprise decision-making.
TM1 is the starting point, not the destination. The publication uses TM1, OLAP, enterprise planning, business intelligence, data culture, artificial intelligence, and decision intelligence as connected chapters in a longer story: how organizations have repeatedly tried to improve decisions through technology.
The recurring question is simple:
Why have organizations so often believed that new systems would help them understand the business, model uncertainty, allocate resources, and decide better?
TM1 did not begin at a single moment. Its origins stretch from an Exxon problem context through prototype work, company formation, public announcement, and eventual visibility in the trade press.
Hyperion gave TM1 a credible route into enterprise finance. The path appears to have been closed by consolidation and portfolio choice, not by a clear failure of the underlying engine.
TM1 matters because its four-decade survival makes it an unusually revealing witness to the changing history of planning, analytics, and business computing.
