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Contents
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1 History
2 Business intelligence and data warehousing
3 Business intelligence and business analytics
4 Applications in an enterprise
5 Prioritization of business intelligence projects
6 Success factors of implementation
7 Marketplace
o 7.1 Industry specific
8 Future
9 See also
10 References
[edit]History
In a 1958 article, IBM researcher Hans Peter Luhn used the term business
intelligence. He defined intelligence as:[3] "the ability to apprehend the
interrelationships of presented facts in such a way as to guide action towards
a desired goal."
In 1989 Howard Dresner (later a Gartner Group analyst) proposed BI as an
umbrella term to describe "concepts and methods to improve business
decision making by using fact-based support systems."[2] It was not until the
late 1990s that this usage was widespread.
[edit]Applications in an enterprise
Business Intelligence can be applied to the following business purposes
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(MARCKM), in order to drive business value:
[edit]Future