The American erudite Hans Peter Long (1896-1964) for the first time offered the term BI. He was a specialist in the field of information science, i.e. was engaged in information science in its first-born sense as it was during a pre-computer era, only electromechanical tabulators were available to it.
Before designating a subject of the work, it defined its components, having described business as a set of the different activities undertaken in science, technologies, commerce, the industry, legislative activity, defense, etc. He called the communications systems supporting these types of activity intelligence system, i.e. systems supporting reasonable activity. And Loong understood capability as intelligence to set interrelation between representations of discrete facts to act for the benefit of solutions of assigned tasks and the planned purposes.
The birth of BI is dated 1958 when Hans Peter Long published article "A Business Intelligence System" in IBM System Journal.
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