Analytics for Decision Makers Needed before Autopilots

Ultimately all analytics is about decision making.  From the most simple yes/no, to the most complex management of risk portfolios.  Decision making usually includes the decisions of humans, based on the assistance of computing devices.  True, process control applications do close the loop to create 'autopilots' in every manufacturing environment today, but there are many, many challenges before we close all the loops. One will be to get analytics into the hands of the human decision makers, remarkably rare, even these days.  It can be done, starting with the Cloud.