Transcript Overview of New Horizons in Business Intelligence: Sources

Overview of New Horizons in
Business Intelligence
Sources, Software and Services
Harry Collier, Infonortics Ltd
What is new?
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Networking
Desktop power
Software
Data explosion
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Networking
• Internet
• Intranets
• Extranets
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Networking (II)
• TCP / IP brings standardisation
• HTML brings simplicity and standardisation
• Mass market brings lower prices, simplicity
and technological innovation
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Desktop power
• Desktop power enables
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New tasks
New horizons
Transfer from central to local
Flexibility
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Software
• An explosion of affordable software to run
on powerful desktops:
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Search (text, patterns, images, sounds)
Knowledge-based systems (inference)
Intelligent agents
Data mining / text mining
Visualisation
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Network Search Software
• New technology – network search engines
began to proliferate around 1995
• Spiders, crawlers, engines, directories,
metadata searching
• Northern Light, Inktomi, AltaVista, Excite,
InfoSeek, Yahoo, HotBot, Ask Jeeves ...
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Software Explosion
• Sageware, Retrieval Technologies, Bowne
Internet, InfoGIST, Net Perceptions,
Magnify, Inxight, Knowledge-X,
WavePhore, SemioCorp, i2, Memex,
Aquabrowser … Plus JAVA.
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Data Explosion
• Networks, desktop power and software are
keys to mastering data explosion
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Business Intelligence
• Company reports (net)
• Company news (net)
• Comments, reports, rumours concerning
companies (net)
• Political trend data
• Company image
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Building on the past
• Traditional electronic sources still exist
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Dialog
Lexis-Nexis
IAC
SilverPlatter
EPO
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Where are we going?
• Seamless integration of data sources
– Internal data (intranet)
– External data (internet)
– Evaluated / data collections (extranet)
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Where are we at present?
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Conclusion
• For business intelligence, this is a time of
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Rapid and accelerating change
Unparalleled opportunity
Experimentation
Networks, software and desktop power
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