Stephen E. Arnold: Search and Business Intelligence “Merge” But Nothing New — with Comment by Robert Steele
Are Search and Business Intelligence Merging? Wrong tense. Search has been sucked into business intelligence as a subordinate or utility function. Consultants and “experts” suggest that search and business intelligence are converging. Information Builders, based in New York City, suggests that the alleged convergence looks like two equally-sized markets merging like a math book’s illustration …