IBM developerWorks: This week on dW, and Noah Gift on business analytics and cloud

Noah Gift, Associate Director of Engineering at AT and T Interactive, talks about synergy between cloud computing and business analytics, and give a working example from his new developerWorks article, Cloud Business Analytics: Write Your Own Dashboard. He also shares some interesting background on the history of business analytics, citing controversial U.S. political figure Robert McNamara as a business analytics pioneer and talking about the connection to games and statistical analysis.