Business solution providers and IT vendors, have focused mainly on scalability, automation, and the ability to merge results from relatively simple analytics with opinion from human experts. For example, “e-business applications” in the areas of SCP (supply chain planning), financial analysis and business forecasting, traditionally rely on decision support systems with embedded “data mining”, operations research and OLAP technologies, business intelligence (BI) and reporting tools as well as an easy to use GUI (graphical user interface) and extensible business workflows (e.g., Geoffrion-Krishnan, 2003).
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