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“All of us are smarter than any of us.” -- Dr. Douglas Merrill, former CIO, Google
I’ve been seeing an increase in blog & twitter traffic around SaaS Business Intelligence (BI), predicative analytics, and better decision making lately. And it’s great that we’re making strides in information presentation and consumption. What’s missing though, to me, is a corresponding uptick in information contribution and modeling.