As the pace of business increases, business intelligence technologies have been forced to speed up so they can crunch more data and do it faster. On Thursday, IBM unveiled InfoSphere Streams, a high-performance computing system designed to, in essence, provide business intelligence capabilities on steroids. Based on IBM’s System S stream computing technology, InfoSphere Streams lets users analyze structured and unstructured data in real-time from thousands of sources. Users can mash up data to create new applications based on goal descriptions from business users.
It's about time. this is a great development, because the mountains of data growing out there are waiting for mining techniques and, by extension, monetization. The possibilities are endless.
The challenge for IBM will be to create a GUI that can be used by people other than IT PhD's. The biggest market share will come from "regular" users, not pointy-headed analysts (of which I am one) in smaller businesses. This has been the curse of Wolfram Alpha.
In any event, it is a great leap forward because, as the saying goes "Thar's gold in them thar hills!"
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IBM Launches All-Seeing, All-Knowing, Real-Time Data Cruncher
Posted by: Richard Adhikari May 14, 2009 12:28 PMAs the pace of business increases, business intelligence technologies have been forced to speed up so they can crunch more data and do it faster. On Thursday, IBM unveiled InfoSphere Streams, a high-performance computing system designed to, in essence, provide business intelligence capabilities on steroids. Based on IBM’s System S stream computing technology, InfoSphere Streams lets users analyze structured and unstructured data in real-time from thousands of sources. Users can mash up data to create new applications based on goal descriptions from business users.
The challenge for IBM will be to create a GUI that can be used by people other than IT PhD's. The biggest market share will come from "regular" users, not pointy-headed analysts (of which I am one) in smaller businesses. This has been the curse of Wolfram Alpha.
In any event, it is a great leap forward because, as the saying goes "Thar's gold in them thar hills!"