Luhn coins 'Business Intelligence'
Hans Peter Luhn published 'A Business Intelligence System,' outlining a vision for an automated system that could extract and disseminate information to aid managerial decision-making.
Significance
This was the first documented use and conceptualization of 'Business Intelligence' in a modern computing context, laying the theoretical groundwork decades before the technology could catch up.
Key facts
- Date
- 1958-10-01
- Type
- invention
- Location
- Yorktown Heights, New York (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)