My study report, "Text Analytics 2009: User Perspectives on Solutions and
Providers," is out. It's free. It conveys findings of a survey I
recently conducted. It also provides an introduction to text analytics
that is targeted to BI and data warehousing practitioners and business
analysts. Download it via http://altaplana.com/TA2009 .

Folks on the list may be interested in another topic I'm pursuing --

I'm running another survey, topic "Continuous Intelligence: BI Beyond Real
Time." I'd very much welcome your participation:
http://altaplana.com/CIsurvey . To explain: Continuous Intelligence
drives faster decisions and actions across the enterprise. A more usual
term for CI is Complex Event Processing. It's software that can analyze
and transform "data in flight" without requiring data to be loaded to a
data warehouse. So CI takes BI beyond real time to deliver intelligence
on demand. I'm working with a sponsoring company, Aleri, to understand
the needs of data users. You can respond anonymously. We will send the
first 200 respondents a $5 Amazon gift card in thanks!

Thanks,

Seth

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Seth Grimes Alta Plana Corp, analytical computing & data management
Intelligent Enterprise (TechWeb), Contributing Editor
grimes@... http://altaplana.com +1 301-270-0795