Being smart about business intelligence via Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog
Quote: "The traditional route to BI nirvana is through what we might call the "hierarchy of IT needs." In this hierarchy, a company starts out by getting its base systems infrastructure in order, moves away from direct attached disks to an enterprise storage solution, normalizes the data that it stores, aggregates applications, collects information, and finally, produces BI that the enterprise can use...Now throw Web services into the mix. Web services will clearly have a disruptive impact on BI by enabling a large audience to do important integration tasks cheaply and efficiently without the overhead that only large companies could afford beforehand."