<s>
Real-time	B-General_Concept
business	I-General_Concept
intelligence	I-General_Concept
(	O
RTBI	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
concept	O
describing	O
the	O
process	O
of	O
delivering	O
business	B-General_Concept
intelligence	I-General_Concept
(	O
BI	O
)	O
or	O
information	O
about	O
business	O
operations	O
as	O
they	O
occur	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
result	O
is	O
real-time	B-General_Concept
business	I-General_Concept
intelligence	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
such	O
,	O
it	O
replaces	O
both	O
the	O
classic	O
data	O
warehouse	O
and	O
the	O
enterprise	B-Architecture
application	I-Architecture
integration	I-Architecture
(	O
EAI	O
)	O
functions	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Such	O
event-driven	O
processing	O
is	O
a	O
basic	O
tenet	O
of	O
real-time	B-General_Concept
business	I-General_Concept
intelligence	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
RTBI	O
is	O
an	O
approach	O
in	O
which	O
up-to-a-minute	O
data	O
is	O
analyzed	O
,	O
either	O
directly	O
from	O
operational	O
sources	O
or	O
feeding	O
business	O
transactions	O
into	O
a	O
real	O
time	O
data	O
warehouse	O
and	O
Business	B-General_Concept
Intelligence	I-General_Concept
system	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
All	O
real-time	B-General_Concept
business	I-General_Concept
intelligence	I-General_Concept
systems	O
have	O
some	O
latency	O
,	O
but	O
the	O
goal	O
is	O
to	O
minimize	O
the	O
time	O
from	O
the	O
business	O
event	O
happening	O
to	O
a	O
corrective	O
action	O
or	O
notification	O
being	O
initiated	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Real-time	B-General_Concept
business	I-General_Concept
intelligence	I-General_Concept
technologies	O
are	O
designed	O
to	O
reduce	O
all	O
three	O
latencies	O
to	O
as	O
close	O
to	O
zero	O
as	O
possible	O
,	O
whereas	O
traditional	O
business	B-General_Concept
intelligence	I-General_Concept
only	O
seeks	O
to	O
reduce	O
data	O
latency	O
and	O
does	O
not	O
address	O
analysis	O
latency	O
or	O
action	O
latency	O
since	O
both	O
are	O
governed	O
by	O
manual	O
processes	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
commentators	O
have	O
introduced	O
the	O
concept	O
of	O
right	O
time	O
business	B-General_Concept
intelligence	I-General_Concept
which	O
proposes	O
that	O
information	O
should	O
be	O
delivered	O
just	O
before	O
it	O
is	O
required	O
,	O
and	O
not	O
necessarily	O
in	O
real-time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Real-time	B-General_Concept
Business	I-General_Concept
Intelligence	I-General_Concept
systems	O
are	O
event	B-Application
driven	I-Application
,	O
and	O
may	O
use	O
Complex	B-Operating_System
Event	I-Operating_System
Processing	I-Operating_System
,	O
Event	B-Application
Stream	I-Application
Processing	I-Application
and	O
Mashup	B-Application
(	O
web	O
application	O
hybrid	O
)	O
techniques	O
to	O
enable	O
events	O
to	O
be	O
analysed	O
without	O
being	O
first	O
transformed	O
and	O
stored	O
in	O
a	O
database	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
in-memory	B-General_Concept
database	I-General_Concept
techniques	O
have	O
the	O
advantage	O
that	O
high	O
rates	O
of	O
events	O
can	O
be	O
monitored	O
,	O
and	O
since	O
data	O
does	O
not	O
have	O
to	O
be	O
written	O
into	O
databases	O
data	O
latency	O
can	O
be	O
reduced	O
to	O
milliseconds	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
An	O
alternative	O
approach	O
to	O
event	B-Application
driven	I-Application
architectures	I-Application
is	O
to	O
increase	O
the	O
refresh	O
cycle	O
of	O
an	O
existing	O
data	O
warehouse	O
to	O
update	O
the	O
data	O
more	O
frequently	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
analysis	O
of	O
the	O
data	O
is	O
still	O
usually	O
manual	O
,	O
so	O
the	O
total	O
latency	O
is	O
significantly	O
different	O
from	O
event	B-Application
driven	I-Application
architectural	O
approaches	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
latest	O
alternative	O
innovation	O
to	O
"	O
real-time	O
"	O
event	B-Application
driven	I-Application
and/or	O
"	O
real-time	O
"	O
data	O
warehouse	O
architectures	O
is	O
MSSO	O
Technology	O
(	O
Multiple	O
Source	O
Simple	O
Output	O
)	O
which	O
removes	O
the	O
need	O
for	O
the	O
data	O
warehouse	O
and	O
intermediary	O
servers	O
altogether	O
since	O
it	O
is	O
able	O
to	O
access	O
live	O
data	O
directly	O
from	O
the	O
source	O
(	O
even	O
from	O
multiple	O
,	O
disparate	O
sources	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
is	O
sometimes	O
considered	O
a	O
subset	O
of	O
operational	O
intelligence	O
and	O
is	O
also	O
identified	O
with	O
Business	B-Application
Activity	I-Application
Monitoring	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Technologies	O
that	O
can	O
be	O
supported	O
to	O
enable	O
real-time	B-General_Concept
business	I-General_Concept
intelligence	I-General_Concept
are	O
data	B-Application
visualization	I-Application
,	O
data	O
federation	O
,	O
enterprise	O
information	O
integration	O
,	O
enterprise	B-Architecture
application	I-Architecture
integration	I-Architecture
and	O
service	O
oriented	O
architecture	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Complex	B-Operating_System
event	I-Operating_System
processing	I-Operating_System
tools	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
analyze	O
data	O
streams	O
in	O
real	O
time	O
and	O
either	O
trigger	O
automated	O
actions	O
or	O
alert	O
workers	O
to	O
patterns	O
and	O
trends	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
data	O
warehouse	O
implementation	O
,	O
tasks	O
that	O
involve	O
tuning	O
,	O
adding	O
or	O
editing	O
structure	O
around	O
the	O
data	O
,	O
data	B-General_Concept
migration	I-General_Concept
from	O
other	O
databases	O
,	O
reconciliation	O
of	O
data	O
are	O
done	O
by	O
DBA	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Mobile	O
technology	O
There	O
are	O
very	O
limited	O
vendors	O
for	O
providing	O
Mobile	B-Application
business	I-Application
intelligence	I-Application
;	O
MBI	O
is	O
integrated	O
with	O
existing	O
BI	O
architecture	O
.	O
</s>
