Companies seeking BI (business intelligence) success should proceed with caution. At the 2006 Gartner BI summit, analysts shared BI implementation anecdotes from companies that have painted themselves into a corner. "It's the things you don't see that will get you," said Ted Friedman, research vice president at Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner. In a presentation entitled ##"The Five Fatal Flaws of Business Intelligence,"## Friedman and Bill Hostmann, a fellow research vice president, actually outlined seven fatal flaws to avoid. The analysts explained that they had just chosen the most common problems from companies that have "been there, dumb that."