Federated Stream Processing Support for Real-Time Business Intelligence Applications by Irina Botan, Younggoo Cho, Roozbeh Derakhshan, Nihal Dindar, Laura Haas, Kihong Kim, and Nesime Tatbul, argues realtime BI has two critical requirements:
- reducing latency
- providing rich contextual data that is directly actionable
Topic maps enable you to (reliably) endow subjects in streams with rich contextual data that is directly actionable — across streams. (Not to mention that it will remain re-usable when your current IT department turns over.)
Selling topic maps means casting them in terms of fixing issues of interest to customers.
I think this is another opportunity that awaits some clever topic map company.