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All Articles By Seth Grimes What BI Practitioners Can Learn From Operations Research Growing interest in analytics and the trend toward automated decision making will lead the business intelligence crowd toward the mix of mathematical and statistical techniques used by operations researchers. Q&A: IBM's Aaron Brown on Text Analytics for Legal Compliance The burden of legal e-discovery mandates is driving demand for "knowledge discovery" technologies. The program director of IBM's Content Discovery and Search unit discussed the use of text analytics in legal work and other emerging applications. Breakthrough Analysis: Make Your Data Tell a Story Stories frame facts and organize information to bring you to a conclusion; the outcome can be a new way of seeing problems and deciding how to act. Breakthrough Analysis: In BI Deployments, Methodology Does Matter I've discovered that most BI vendors have their own formal methodologies. And some have been hiding in plain sight for years. Breakthrough Analysis: Search Is Not the Answer Few users are looking for the hit lists of dubious relevance returned by the major search engines. The question-and-answer approach will beat out search in spotting the information we're after. How long before we see this technology in enterprise and Web tools? Dashboard: Event Streams Gain Open Option Esper issues the first production release of its open-source Esper event-stream processing and event-correlation engine. Breakthrough Analysis: Search Is Not the Answer Few users are looking for the hit lists of dubious relevance returned by the major search engines. The question-and-answer approach will beat out search in spotting the information we're after. How long before we see this technology in enterprise and Web tools? Breakthrough Analysis: Will Search Deliver Better BI? Business Objects, Cognos, Information Builders and SAS recently announced partnerships with Google Enterprise, and Cognos additionally hooked up with Autonomy, FAST and IBM's OmniFind. Do these alliances portend a revolution in how we do BI? Breakthrough Analysis: Will Search Deliver Better BI? Business Objects, Cognos, Information Builders and SAS recently announced partnerships with Google Enterprise, and Cognos additionally hooked up with Autonomy, FAST and IBM's OmniFind. Do these alliances portend a revolution in how we do BI? Dashboard: Geek Fun: Event Stream Processing Entertains the Inner Nerd An expressive command language won't win over the GUI-bound or those who study Fortune 500 market share. But those of us "braniacs on nerd patrol" will get the message. Breakthrough Analysis: A Data Space for Information Coexistence Rather than trying to force conformity, a "data space" might allow disparate information to co-exist. New Directions For OLAP As OLAP reaches its second decade, it's being extended beyond data to text and geospatial information. New Directions For OLAP As OLAP reaches its second decade, it's being extended beyond data to text and geospatial information. Search for Meaning Beyond searching and hyperlinks, Web collaborations get to the heart of the matter: meaning. Search For Meaning Beyond searching and hyperlinks, Web collaborations get to the heart of the matter: meaning. Serious Games, Serious Computing Serious gaming means serious, high-performance computing. Location, Location, Location Spatial data from global positioning and imaging systems is fueling new location intelligence apps. Location, Location, Location Spatial data from global positioning and imaging systems is fueling new location intelligence appslications. Here we examine the trend. The Limits of Prediction Predictive analytics may be gaining new users, but it's still too complex for mainstream adoption. The Limits of Prediction Predictive analytics may be gaining new users, but it's still too complex for mainstream adoption. A big problem is that the algorithms are generally abstruse, designed by and for statisticians, generating results that often defy lay explanation. Open-Source Releases Invade the Reporting Market A trio of vendors is preparing to release open-source reporting tools, looking for profits by selling support and enhanced versions of free, open-source software. Open-Source Releases Invade the Reporting Market A trio of vendors is preparing to release open-source reporting tools, looking for profits by selling support and enhanced versions of free, open-source software. Keep Up With Streaming Data Technology proven in stock trading can tap the details in the flood of streaming data coming your way. FBI Case Management System Marked for Termination Modern case-management capabilities remain atop the Federal Bureau of Investigation's IT Most Wanted List as the bureau's $170 million Virtual Case File (VCF) project faces imminent termination. Structure, Models and Meaning Is "unstructured" data merely unmodeled? FBI Case Management System Marked for Termination Modern case-management capabilities remain atop the Federal Bureau of Investigation's IT Most Wanted List as the bureau's $170 million Virtual Case File (VCF) project faces imminent termination. Structure, Models and Meaning Is "unstructured" data merely unmodeled? Open And Shut Analytics: The next stop for open source? Seeing the Connection Thanks to text mining, visualization software can now depict relationships between concepts found in documents and email. From Word Processing To Processor Intensive Microsoft aims for high-performance computing Data Mining For the Masses Data mining is a "must have": but can it overcome obstacles to mainstream BI inclusion? Consumer and Enterprise Search: Not an Exact Match Overshadowed by Google mania and relatively simple technology for consumer search engines, enterprise search is making exciting progress. But the requirements are tougher: businesses demand accuracy, timeliness, integration, and availability. Matchmaker, Matchmaker Internet-mediated social networks can enhance the role of relationships in business decision-making. Accuracy and Precision Analytic accuracy and precision will make or break real-time decision-support systems. |
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