BAO Wow - Forbes.com
Why big companies are putting big bets on business analytics and optimization.
“Business processes are very sticky within corporations,” says Klaber. “They take a great deal of training, automation and time to change. We can’t have that same luxury around information. We want rapid decision-making and change, and that’s coming at a different speed than the underlying business processes.”
Adam Klaber, general manager of global consulting for IBM, Global Business Services
Digital ‘Cloud’ could form over London for the 2012 Olympics: Engadget
…We’re talking about an actual (well, artificial) cloud that promises to be both a real structure and a massive digital display. That’s the bright idea of a team of researchers from MIT, anyway, and it’s now been shortlisted in a competition designed to find a new tourist attraction to be built in London for the 2012 Olympics. Dubbed simply “The Cloud,” the structure would consist of two 400-foot tall mesh towers that are linked by a series of interconnected plastic bubbles, which would themselves house an observation deck inside and be used to display everything from Olympic scores and highlights to a “barometer of the city’s interests and moods” outside (that latter bit comes courtesy of the group’s partnership with Google).
