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But rapid decision-making with incomplete and imperfect information is the hallmark of intellect. Any fool can make decisions with all the information in front of him — and many do.

pretty surprised to read it on a BI site, nevertheless..

Whats latest in BI is efforts to Club all integration techniques and to deliver sense to the customer.Talking about delivering INFORMATION and not just data.The latest talks are on Semantics for the metadata , pretty interesting check the below for details

http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=171000640&pgno=1