What are some important dates in the history of data warehousing?
• 1958: Hans Peter Luhn publishes “A Business Intelligence System” at IBM [10] • June 1970: E. F. Codd publishes “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks” [16] • July 13, 1979: Teradata incorporated [1] • 1983: The first beta Teradata system shipped to Wells Fargo [1] • 1986: Ralph Kimball founds Red Brick Systems [4] • 1987: Teradata IPO [1] • 1988: Barry Devlin and Paul Murphy publish “An architecture for a business and information system” in IBM Systems Journal where they introduce the term “business data warehouse” [13] • 1990: Arbor Software is founded [15] • 1991: AT&T acquired NCR, NCR acquired Teradata [1] • 1992: The first Teradata system over 1 TB goes live at Wal-mart [1] • 1992: Bill Inmon publishes the first edition of “Building the Data Warehouse” [5] • 1995: TDWI founded [6] • 1995: Stanford Infolab’s WHIPS project begins [7] • 1995: CUBE operator invented at Microsoft [9] • 1996: Ralph Kimball publishes the first edition of “The Data Warehouse Toolkit” [8
