The History of Business Intelligence & Its Evolution

PRE-BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

1865 1865:
THE VERY BEGINNING
1956:
THE HARD DRIVE
1958:
THE FATHER OF BI
Richard Devins first uses the term IBM invents the hard disk drive IBM computer scientist Hans
Business Intelligence in his book, which allows for digital st orage Peter Luhn writes a landmark
"Cyclopaedia of Commercial and of vast amounts of data. article on BI called, “A Business
Business Anecdotes." 1865 ‘56 Intelligence System.” ‘58
T HE 19 90 S: BUSINES S IN T EL LIGENCE 1.0

1993: 1988: THE MULTIWAY THE 1970s:

THE OLAP CUBE
OLAP (or online analytical
processing) is coined by
Edgar F. Codd becomes
known as the father of the ‘93
relational database.
1995: THE PERSONAL
COMPUTER AND
THE INTERNET
The sales of PCs rise nearly 700%
between the years of 1994 and 2000
and is mirrored by an exponential
‘95 increase in internet users.
DATA ANALYSIS THE JUMP FROM THEORY
CONSORTIUM IN ROME TO PRACTICE
The Multiway Data Analysis Decision Support Systems (DSS)
Consortium in Rome, inspires the are the first database manage-
first text specifically written on ment systems to be developed.
business intelligence. ‘88 ‘70
THE 2000S: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE 2.0
2006: THE RISE OF
2001: SOFTWARE-AS-A-
SERVICE (SaaS) THE CLOUD AND
MOBILE BI
Based on the Application Service Amazon Web Services introduces their
Providers (ASP) model, the term cloud storage service that it gains
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is widespread recognition and adoption
‘01 first used. ‘06
for cloud technologies.

THE 2010S: THE NE X T GENER ATION OF BI

2019
2018 2018: VERTICAL BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE
2016: DEMOCRATIZING DATA AND
THE RISE OF CITIZEN DATA SCIENTISTS

The shift to industry-specific, vertically-aligned solutions
that cater to select market niches rather than trying to
serve all markets, thus delivering an application that is
finely tuned for industry-specific processes,
requirements, and best practices.
Increasingly user friendly solutions allow users
with outside of the field of statistics and
analytics to uncover actionable insights
‘18 within their business data. ‘16