Embedding Real-Time Analysis

Naeem Hashmi On Embedding Real-Time Analytics

"As organizations grow to depend on globally distributed service networks, their business intelligence (BI) capability must adapt. Here's how autonomous agents will "embed" BI in business processes to overcome new challenges."

writes Naeem Hashmi for IntelligentEnterprise.com.

I wrote a few weeks ago about Oracle's current business intelligence vision being based around real-time data warehousing built using materialized views and Oracle 10g's new asynchronous change data capture, and this Infoworld article puts Oracle's vision in the context of the other big vendors' move to embed analytics in their ERP offerings. You might also remember Oracle's announcement last month about Business Activity Monitoring, a new module within Application Server 10g which was described as being able to

"detect, correlate, and analyze separate events such as RFID scans, bar code readings, or events out of an enterprise application or a supply-chain process event. Kurian said the the BAM application is unique in that it can correlate both traditional historical events out of a data warehouse with real-time events.".

 Interesting stuff.