Service-Oriented Business Intelligence
by Sean Gordon, Robert Grigg, Michael Horne, and Simon Thurman
please see the attachement for the full article. Fun stuff for those who like architectural discussions :-)
Summary: This discussion looks at the similarities and differences between Business Intelligence (BI) and Service Orientation (SO), two architectural paradigms that have developed independently. Here we define an architectural framework that leverages the strengths of BI and SO while defining guiding principles to ensure that the fundamental tenets of each of the component architectures are not broken.