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)