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Chapter 5
Advanced Analytics Platform
The architecture components described in the previous chapter must be placed
in an integrated architecture where they can all coexist and provide overall
functionality and performance consistent with our requirements. However, the
requirements are at odds with each other. On one hand, we are dealing with
unstructured data discovery over very large data sets that may have very high
latency. On the other hand, the adaptive analytics activities are bringing the
analytics to a conversation level requiring very low latency. How do we establish
an overall architecture that respects both of these components equally while
establishing a formalized process for data integration? This chapter describes
an integrated architecture that responds to these challenges and establishes a
role for each component that is consistent with its capabilities. The architecture
outlined in this chapter is
Advanced Analytics Platform (AAP)
. We have been
experimenting with the integration of architecture components in IBM's Dallas
Global Solution Center using a physical implementation of AAP.
I will use an analogy from sports television coverage to demonstrate how this
architecture closely follows the working behavior of highly productive teams. I
have always been fascinated with how a sports television production is able to
cover a live event and keep us engaged as an audience using a combination of
real-time and batch processing. The entire session proceeds like clockwork. It is
almost like watching a movie, except that the movie is playing live with just a
small time buffer to deal with catastrophic events (like wardrobe malfunctions!).
As the game progresses, the commentators use their subject knowledge to
observe the game, prioritize areas of focus, and make judgments about good
or bad plays. The role of the director is to align a large volume of data, synthe-
size the events into meaningful insight, and direct the commentators to speciic
focus areas. This includes replays of moves to focus on something we may have
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