#ORF09 Business Rules in the Cloud Presentation

This entry is part 24 of 30 in the series October Rules Fest 2009

Carlos Serrano-Morales is talking about how the Internet world is going to affect the AI world.

Some transformation forces:

  • The Economy
  • Big Data

Competitive survival is driven by the ability to anticipate crisis situations as well the ability to react swiftly to it.

There is an ever increasing amount of data with increasing complexity that we need to deal with. How do we leverage that information?

The cloud is a resource that you can use on an elastic basis. You use what you need. Cloud computing is leveraging the cloud. Cloud computing is not a fad, it is currently at the top of Gartner’s hype cycle, but it is not going to go away.

Carlos then went into some details about Cloud computing, the architecture, etc.

The implications of large data is that you will need to map the information to what you want to do, sort the information and reduce (summarize?) the contents to reduce the volume. He called that “MapReduce” which is a programming model.

What does that mean for decision management? We need to increase our capability to predict, which requires new analytical methods to cope with large, sparse, unstructured data. Use predictive models to capture correlations. Leverage cloud infrastructure.

More challenges:

  • To increase our ability to react and adapt
  • To deploy decision services in an efficient and scalable fashion within the cloud

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