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Business Intelligence Evolution: Networking, Software, and Data Explosion

Discover the latest advancements in business intelligence sources, software, and services with a focus on networking, desktop power, software explosion, and data management. Explore how new technologies like network search engines, intelligent agents, and data mining are shaping the future of business intelligence. Learn about the seamless integration of data sources and the opportunities for leveraging internal and external data collections. This is a time of rapid change and unparalleled opportunity in the field of business intelligence, driven by networks, powerful software, and data explosion.

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Business Intelligence Evolution: Networking, Software, and Data Explosion

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  1. Overview of New Horizons in Business IntelligenceSources, Software and Services Harry Collier, Infonortics Ltd

  2. What is new? • Networking • Desktop power • Software • Data explosion

  3. Networking • Internet • Intranets • Extranets

  4. Networking (II) • TCP / IP brings standardisation • HTML brings simplicity and standardisation • Mass market brings lower prices, simplicity and technological innovation

  5. Desktop power • Desktop power enables • New tasks • New horizons • Transfer from central to local • Flexibility

  6. Software • An explosion of affordable software to run on powerful desktops: • Search (text, patterns, images, sounds) • Knowledge-based systems (inference) • Intelligent agents • Data mining / text mining • Visualisation

  7. 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 ...

  8. Software Explosion • Sageware, Retrieval Technologies, Bowne Internet, InfoGIST, Net Perceptions, Magnify, Inxight, Knowledge-X, WavePhore, SemioCorp, i2, Memex, Aquabrowser … Plus JAVA.

  9. Data Explosion • Networks, desktop power and software are keys to mastering data explosion

  10. Business Intelligence • Company reports (net) • Company news (net) • Comments, reports, rumours concerning companies (net) • Political trend data • Company image

  11. Building on the past • Traditional electronic sources still exist • Dialog • Lexis-Nexis • IAC • SilverPlatter • EPO

  12. Where are we going? • Seamless integration of data sources • Internal data (intranet) • External data (internet) • Evaluated / data collections (extranet)

  13. Where are we at present?

  14. Conclusion • For business intelligence, this is a time of • Rapid and accelerating change • Unparalleled opportunity • Experimentation • Networks, software and desktop power

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