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A reader asks - what makes a company ready (for EDM)?. A reader had an interesting question this week. As a comment to Using decision management to deliver intelligent business performance he asked “What makes a company ready?”. I suspect my closing line “The products are, mostly, ready.

WHAEM: PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION FOR THE WELLHEAD ANALYTIC ELEMENT M... Recent Science Inventory records from the EPA Wed, 08/27/2008 - 09:57 The Wellhead Analytic Element Model (WhAEM) demonstrates a new technique for the definition of time-of-travel capture zones in relatively simple geohydrologic settings.

DEMONSTRATION OF THE ANALYTIC ELEMENT METHOD FOR WELLHEAD PROTEC... Recent Science Inventory records from the EPA Wed, 08/27/2008 - 09:52 A new computer program has been developed to determine time-of-travel capture zones in relatively simple geohydrological settings.

Greenplum and Aster Data have both just announced the integration of MapReduce into their SQL MPP data warehouse products. So why do I think this could be a big deal? The short answer is “Because MapReduce offers dramatic performance gains in analytic application areas that still need great performance speed-up.” The long answer goes something like this.

Last Thursday, both Greenplum and Aster Data — the two most recent of my numerous data warehouse specialist customers — both told me of the same major innovation. Both were rushing to announce it first, before anybody else did. This led to considerable tap dancing, with the upshot being that both are releasing the information tonight or tomorrow morning.

About one month ago, the DNI issued its “Analytic Outreach” directive (ICD-205), which ordered intelligence analysts within the IC to engage with individuals “outside the IC to explore ideas and alternate perspectives, gain new insights, generate new knowledge, or obtain new information.”  Well, think of this project as a reverse Analytic Outreach.

[artist: Sandra Sunnyo Lee]Psychological, philosophical, and Buddhist geekiness all in the same paper -- how can you go wrong?1. Pagis, Michal. "Toward an Analytic Theory of the Self: Studying the Buddhist “Non-Self” in Practice" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Aug 11, 2006 Online PDF>.

An announcement will be forthcoming in a few days. In the meantime, IntelFusion will be 10-7 for a bit. Here’s some relevant background reading until then: Palantir Technologies: The future of analysis Intelligence Community Directive #205 - Analytic Outreach The FSB’s Cyberwarriors Social Media

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