Where his business is concerned, pattern-finding and analyzing Business Intelligence software is no longer the province of statistical analysts, strategy reports, or briefing books anymore.
This is not in the article but was tweeted at me by Ashk4n and may provide further reason to read the piece: At a Start-up School talk last month, Palantir co-founder Stephen Cohen bragged about how his pattern-finding start-up makes grizzled government types turn into giddy teenagers ( 15:00 min mark).