As the pace of business increases, business intelligence technologies have been forced to speed up so they can crunch more data and do it faster. On Thursday, IBM unveiled InfoSphere Streams, a high-performance computing system designed to, in essence, provide business intelligence capabilities on steroids. Based on IBM’s System S stream computing technology, InfoSphere Streams lets users analyze structured and unstructured data in real-time from thousands of sources. Users can mash up data to create new applications based on goal descriptions from business users.
