Sunday, February 19, 2012

Networks and BI

Networks have become a very integral part of our lives. and technology is making full use of networks to make our lives easy. Facebook makes use of networks and lets you designate some friends as "Close friends", you are send special notifications when these friends update their status or post a new album.

LinkedIn and Twitter use networks to analyze your level of association with others and based on that you get recommendations to follow similar trends or add new friends.
But Amazon's use of networks combined with Business Intelligence is something that others have not being able to emulate.

The recommendation system system of Amazon suggests you new products based on someone else's shopping experience. and to everyone's surprise the recommendations are quite helpful.

As time progresses we will see closer association of network study and business intelligence.