Is the US intelligence community moving more purposefully with access and analysis?
Here is rural Kentucky even my neighbors are economizing. Instead of shooting squirrels with semi-automatic rifles, the Hatfield-like brood has reverted to snares. Most of the lower quartile crowd with whom I spend my time did not see the economic meltdown coming. In reality, the whiz kids in London, Manhattan, and Tokyo didn’t seem too aware of the problem either. What’s wrong? There are real time intelligence systems available from big name outfits (Thomson Reuters), smaller tune (Connotate), and newcomers (FirstRain, Silobreaker), among others. These systems deliver business intelligence, often accompanied by graphs, heads up displays. The Cluuz.com system takes the woeful Yahoo search system and makes it yield useful information. I read with interest the nine business intelligence trends that a reader forwarded to me early this morning. A capable analyst (David Stodder) tackles this subject in the economic climate of the moment. I wonder if the present economic climate is a consequ
