Business Intelligence (BI)
Overview

What is Business Intelligence?
BI Cycle
History of “Business Intelligence”
BI In The World Today
Business Intelligence Tools
Future of BI
Potential Problems
IBM “Sketching the Future”
What Did We Learn?
References

History of “Business Intelligence”
1958 – IBM researcher Hans Peter Luhn used the term “business intelligence” and defined the word “intelligence” as “the ability to apprehend the interrelationships of presented facts in such a way as to guide action towards a desired goal.”

1989 – Howard Dresner proposed BI as an umbrella term to describe “concepts and methods to improve business decision making by using fact-based support systems.”