Amit Chembukar and Prasanna Keny of Tata Consulting wrote Trends in Operational BI in BI Review. It’s a nice article and they make some good points about the characteristics of the kinds of systems they discuss:
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If you’ve been following the story of the Franco-German Quaero project – a planned European multimedia search engine, the answer to Google and brainchild of the French government – you’ll know that European politics have contributed to the mire it’s been in for some months.
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