There is a deep thinking article over at B-eye-Network on the concept of moving from business intelligence to a “wider world of enterprise architecture.” The author points out a number of drivers that suggest a shift (growth) from business intelligence to a world of fully-connected, real-time, integrated set of information. The article suggests that as we move to a world where, for example, unstructured web data and social media data are added to traditional operational data. This move will drive us to a point where change will demand a new architecture to support, mine, analyze and report on these disparate data sources.Some of the drivers for this transformation to occur include:
Real-time data for real-time decision making
Increasingly sophisticated analytics
“Soft Information.” Soft information is new data sources added to the business intelligence mix. These sources include: email, voicemail, documents, videos, tweets, and blogs.
Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
Unstructured Web content
As the author succinctly points out, “Does the data being combines in the real-time query actually belong together?”
What do you think; does operational plus informational computing equal Enterprise 2.0 for you? Are these drivers things that you are working on, do they keep you up at night? Are you prepared for a new architecture?
Spotfire Blogging Team
