Tom Jesionowski recently published an article on TDAN about The Prime Business Decision Loop. Tom had sent me a copy in advance to look over and I thought I would blog about it and publish my comments as I think he has made a valuable contribution to the discussion around decision making with the loop.
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Paul Daro was next giving some detail around the new architecture (introduced by Bernhard Nann). A number of trends were identified first:

Clearly the move to a collection of services from monolithic applications has fundamentally changed the relationship of vendors to customers - now more about delivering services that can be fitted in to an overall [...]

Attensity is a text analytics company based in Silicon Valley and Utah that is focused on helping companies hear the “voice of the customer”. By allowing companies to effectively process the text in emails, service logs, call notes and, more recently, forums, blogs and wikis, Attensity aims to make companies both aware of their customers’ [...]

Neil and I caught up with Joe Foley, Chief Architect and Kirsten Chapman, VP Global Marketing and Alliances from i-lluminate this week. illuminate (www.i-lluminate.com) is a Spanish company that has recently begun to expand in the US.
illuminate is trying to tackle what it sees as the unsolved performance problem of ad-hoc analysis in companies who [...]

Neil has just finished some research work on data warehouse performance for our friends at Teradata published as Meeting Demands for Data Warehouse Performance.  This white paper discusses how expanding operational roles for data warehouses, particularly in terms of supporting operational decision making and enterprise decision management, require dynamic workload capabilities on the data warehouse [...]

The folks at Kognitio gave me a quick overview of their WX2 product recently. WX2 is aimed at three distinct areas:

Software platform for high performance analytics
Data as a Service - it is being offered hosted to SMBs for instance
Data Warehouse Appliances

WX2 came out of the UK and is the end result of [...]

Pip Coburn gave the closing keynote on Naked Without My Data. Pip made the point that lots of people actually don’t want to get quality data - they want to hear what they expect. People are not acting like quality of data matters. They want the data that supports their point of view or conforms [...]

Darren from ASG presented next on Metadata enabled Business/IT Integration. Business metadata can be contained in all sorts of things like data models, XML and database schemas, process definitions, ERP/CRM etc. Not clear who created what or which ones are “right” and things like mergers and acquisitions may create new problems. There is no “right” [...]

Terry from Pinnacle Entertainment (a gaming company) was up after lunch on The Business Drivers Behind Creating an Enterprise Data Architecture in the Gaming Industry. Pinnacle has 12 properties, none in Vegas, and competes with the likes of Harrah’s (used as a case study by Stephen Brobst yesterday). Pinnacle started with a marketing data warehouse, [...]

Stephen Brobst of Teradata was next with A Reference Architecture for Integrating an Active Data Warehouse into the Real-Time Enterprise. He started with a great quote from a Gartner analyst:
No such thing as a business surprise - there is always a warning in advance
but were you listening - did you collect data about it, analyze [...]