New Applications for Business Intelligence and Analytics

by Brian J. Dooley

The BI landscape is shifting gradually to embrace new topic areas and empower new classes of users. Although this has been a gradual evolution, the end result could have revolutionary consequences. Historically, powerful technologies tend to become more widely applied and more readily used over time, with the results often proving unpredictable. Two of the clearest examples from the past century are the personal computer and the Web. As with Moore's Law (the value of a network grows with the square of the users), technologies tend over time to become more powerful and simpler to use; then, when everyone is using them, natural synergies create a greater whole.

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New Applications for Business Intelligence and Analytics1 December 2007