Hans Peter Luhn coins 'Business Intelligence'

IBM researcher Hans Peter Luhn publishes 'A Business Intelligence System,' outlining an automated approach to information dissemination within organizations.

Significance

This paper laid the conceptual groundwork for what would much later become the modern BI software category, defining the term and its purpose.

Key facts

Date
1958-10-01
Type
invention
Location
Yorktown Heights, New York, USA (IBM Research Center)