Rich Lechner of IBM came next, talking about the new enterprise and it’s new enterprise data center. Supporting business innovation is impacted, he said, by three things:

Globalization
The change from an exporter to a multi-country set of counties to a truly globally integrated enterprise - tapping into new talent pools around the world.
Rising tide of information
More [...]

Two of Gartner’s smartest analysts - Kurt Schlegel and Gareth Herschel (shameless plug) - just published an excellent little paper called “Business Intelligence and Decision Making“. This paper was one of Gartner’s Strategic Planning Assumptions and the (free) summary says:
A subset of organizations that seek a competitive advantage will evolve the primary role of their [...]

Dave Wright and Scott Ambler have started a discussion about the book over on the Requirements Network - check out this topic (registration required) if you want to join in.

The book was cited by Steve Miller in his DM Review column “Super Crunchers - Lessons for BI Learned and Confirmed.” Steve described the book as providing “painstaking detail on how to use analytics, decision rules and optimization techniques to automate routine decisions”.
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In his blog post “Process, Prediction and Icahn’s Interest in BEA“, Doug Henschen cited Smart (Enough) Systems as a “cogent” look at how analytics need to get in synch with real-time operational decision-making.
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Ron Ross, who wrote a testimonial for the book, cited the book in his article The Value of Decisions: New Ideas on the ROI of Business Rules for Business Rules Journal, Vol. 8, No. 9 (Sep. 2007).

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Cindi Howson cited Smart (Enough) Systems in her blog posts “Of BI, Crème Brulee and Chocolate Mousse” on Intelligent Enterprise and her own site.
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Charlie Bess of EDS discussed the book on the EDS Next Big Thing Blog in his post Smart (Enough) Systems. He also mentioned it again in Breaking Up (Applications) Is Hard To Do
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Gib Basset cited the book in an article on DM Review - Making the Most of Operational Analytics with Enterprise Decision Management.
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Ron Ross, who wrote a testimonial for the book, wrote A Case of Dueling Manifestos? Business Rules and Enterprise Decision Management for Business Rules Journal, Vol. 8, No. 8 (Aug. 2007)

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