I’m probably biased because I’m working on this problem, but I think there is a fundamental change coming in business intelligence and analytics. And I think I’ve only heard one company talk about it: Google.
One of the most under-appreciated tools of the last decade is Yahoo Pipes. If you’ve never seen it, it allows you to wield together different data feeds like RSS and do some cleansing operations on them, spitting them out as a unified data feed on the back-end. It also makes it so easy…