{"id":12096,"date":"2009-12-01T15:22:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T14:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/microsofts-dallas-copies-businessobjects-information-ondemand.html"},"modified":"2009-12-01T15:22:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T14:22:11","slug":"microsofts-dallas-copies-businessobjects-information-ondemand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/microsofts-dallas-copies-businessobjects-information-ondemand.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s Dallas Copies BusinessObjects Information OnDemand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just over two years ago, BusinessObjects <a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/ebay_information_on_demand.html\" target=\"_blank\">launched Information OnDemand<\/a>, an online store allowing you to buy information from premium providers such as Dun &amp; Bradstree, the US Census Bureau, NewsTin, etc.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/image.jpg?resize=690%2C446&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" width=\"690\" height=\"446\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And now Microsoft have launched their \u201cDallas\u201d project, a variation on the same theme:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMicrosoft\u2019s Information Services business, enabling developers and information workers to instantly find, purchase, and manage datasets to power the next set of applications\u2014powered by premium content\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/image1.jpg?resize=690%2C430&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" width=\"690\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s increasingly mashed-up world of analytics, let\u2019s all hope that standards will emerge that will allow purchase and use of information from any data provider \u2013 so that <em>any<\/em> organization can choose to sell subsets of its information assets on the open market.<\/p>\n<p>This will inevitably require big changes to data governance and authorization. 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