Category Archives: Analytics as a Service

Intuitive Intelligence (I2) v Artificial Intelligence (AI)

As technology experts talk today about future intelligent decision systems, they use the term Artificial Intelligence (AI). I prefer the term Intuitive Intelligence (or I2). This implies that intuition must be a part of that intelligent system. There is some science that indicates men and women often arrive at decisions differently. Men are inclined to stick with the facts and make a decision based on what the black and white data tells them. Women are often able to incorporate intuitive (gray area) feelings in the decision process versus a data-driven only perspective. Intuition is an ability to understand something based on a feeling, but in reality that feeling is driven by a multitude of many, many (many) small pieces of often insignificant information that are assimilated in a way to make a better risk assessment. Continue reading

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We Need to Change the Way We Think About Artificial Intelligence

AI is actually neither artificial nor intelligent. It implies decisions made through computers programmed to make choices to act in a certain manner. But those computers are programmed simply to make yes/no decisions. This is really no different than what we consider intuition. Continue reading

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Let’s Understand What the “Cloud” Is Really Changing

Mark Hurd is on target in How Cloud Computing is Revolutionizing Business, but let’s be honest — the cloud is really allowing someone else to own and manage the infrastructure that supports your data needs.  While there are variations on … Continue reading

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Show Me the Money — Time to Rethink This DOD Cloud-Broker

Remember that note from the DoD CIO that designated DISA as the priority choice for defense agencies seeking cloud services? Well, it may not be so any more.  For all the bureaucratic hangers-on, don’t kid yourself — this is really … Continue reading

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Analytics as a Service – DISA May Be Missing a Business Opportunity

I have great respect for Dave Bennett and the task he faces as DISA CIO. He is on track in pushing for enterprise solutions that leverage COTS solutions without driving modifications that make them no-longer COTS. Focusing on addressing ways to … Continue reading

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