In a 1958 article, IBM researcher Hans Peter Luhn used the term business intelligence. He defined intelligence as: "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." It was not until the late 1990s that this usage was widespread.

Since the early 1990s the early adopters of these Business Intelligence systems were mostly large corporations. 

However with the increasing number of Business Intelligence  software and Database Vendors these systems have become more affordable and easy to use with a better ROI than the 1990's. Nexus BI consultants have helped many different clients with business intelligence deployments. The technology keeps changing but we have kept up and stayed ahead of the curve with innovative solutions for our clients. Our experience includes deployments with many different interfaces including Mobile, Desktop, Web based, Email based Subscription and altering, Blackberry and Mobile Devices, Printers, as well as through Microsoft Office. Our services include: 

          * Alerting and notification
          * Ad-hoc query and reporting
          * Business/corporate performance management
          * Collaborative business  intelligence
          * Dashboards and scorecards
          * Multi-dimensional on-line analytical processing  (MOLAP)
          * Operational reporting
          * Predictive modeling and statistical  analysis
          * Relational on-line analytical processing (ROLAP)