Business Models: Temporal and Spatial Analysis

In a previous blog entry at http://notesfromworkshop.blogspot.com/2009/01/lokad-business-model.html, I discussed the use of web services for forecasting. One company that I worked as a consultant was i-cubed at http://www.i3.com/. They have a datadoors product at http://www.i3.com/products_datadoors.html that does distributed geographic data management. Notice that their architecture, http://www.i3.com/products_datadoors_architecture.html , is based on an arcGIS front end to XML to a web service tier. I think that these two business models provide good insight into learning how to run a successful service oriented architecture (SOA). Also, I like their ideas on visualization and distribution services. The combination of these two business models for spatial/temporal data would be effective for doing both analytical and predictive modeling.