Business Intelligence An Industrial Perspective

Information technology has long enabled enterprises to conduct business transactions efficiently. The advent of Web and the accompanying pervasive search, retrieval and mining technologies have opened up a new frontier for enterprises. Enterprises, private or public, are expected to capitalize on information of many sources and forms to detect events and respond to changes quickly for business advantages. In this talk, we will discuss next-generation business intelligence architectures that will likely enable business intelligence applications to scale significantly both in computation and in volume of data, and thus opening up possibilities that are not practical today, by fusing parallel computing and parallel data management technologies and by going way beyond the type and scope of data harnessed in traditional online transaction processing systems.