Hadoop as a Data Staging Platform
The use of Hadoop in support of data warehousing and BI analytics efforts is still a relatively new development for many mainstream businesses. Some organizations, however, are implementing Hadoop in order to supplement their data warehousing and BI environments with its extreme processing capabilities.
Hadoop as a Data Staging Platform
The use of Hadoop in support of data warehousing and BI analytics efforts is still a relatively new development for many mainstream businesses. Some organizations, however, are implementing Hadoop in order to supplement their data warehousing and BI environments with its extreme processing capabilities.
There Ought to Be a Law
One of the benefits of having worked in both product management and technology for over 35 years is that you gain a certain perspective. We live in an endless stream of invention. It seems as though everything is new. But to the astute, the observant, even in an explosion of discovery, patterns emerge.
What Agile Can Learn from Submarines
Among the most intriguing books about leadership I've read in the last year was David Marquet's Turn the Ship Around, in which Marquet -- a submarine captain of the US Navy -- describes how he turne
After the Cloud?
After the Cloud?
IBM Bets the Future on Watson
The advent of cloud-based Watson-powered systems and services is significant. Outfitted with content and knowledge bases tailored to specific domains and industries, such systems can deliver expert reasoning and decision support that organizations can license. Thus, it increases the practicality of organizations to use such systems by reducing, if not eliminating, the need to deploy such high-end applications on-premises.
IBM Bets the Future on Watson
The advent of cloud-based Watson-powered systems and services is significant. Outfitted with content and knowledge bases tailored to specific domains and industries, such systems can deliver expert reasoning and decision support that organizations can license. Thus, it increases the practicality of organizations to use such systems by reducing, if not eliminating, the need to deploy such high-end applications on-premises.
Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive Analytics: Emerging Visions for the Analytics Future
In this Update, we explore how analytics engineering will emerge as a focal point for handling the integrations and infrastructure requirements of this new discipline. And fundamental changes will be necessary in how business processes are understood and in how decisions are made and evaluated at every level.
Change Management Principles
Context Counts: Scaling Factors in Agile Software Delivery
What scaling factors should we consider when tailoring our approach to Agile solution delivery? Several years ago, while working with IBM customers around the world to adopt and scale Agile, Scott developed the Agile Scaling Model (ASM) to help answer this question.
Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0
Here Come the Bots: Big Data on Servos
When Normal Accidents Meet Willful Neglect
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of Yale sociology professor emeritus Charles Perrow's ground-breaking book Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies.
When Normal Accidents Meet Willful Neglect
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of Yale sociology professor emeritus Charles Perrow's ground-breaking book Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies.
Why Agile BI?
Agile-EVM Performance Measurement Workshop
Agile adoption goes hand in hand with abandoning so-called traditional project management. Yet new projects are continously faced with legitimate management questions. Now you can answer these questions with confidence when you adapt the Earned Value Management method (EVM) into your Agile product development process.
Top Intriguing Business & Enterprise Architecture Articles for 2013
As has been our tradition for the last several years, we've compiled the five most intriguing articles published by the Business & Enterprise Architecture practice for today's Advisor. How did we come up with this list? We chose the articles that garnered the most feedback from Cutter Members and clients and those that created controversy among Cutter Senior Consultants and Fellows.
A Practical Guide to the Most Useful Architectural Frameworks: Part III -- The Architecture Governance Process Framework
In the first two Executive Updates of this five-part series,1 we looked at frameworks for architecture content and the architecture development process.
Cutter Predicts ... Cutter Experts’ Trends and Predictions for 2014
Once again, the end of the year has snuck up! That means it’s time for our annual Cutter Predicts … series. Below, Cutter Fellows and Senior Consultants showcase their visions of 2014 (and in some cases, beyond).
All Gov’t Levels to Search for Cost-Effective Operational Stability by Mark PetersonThis coming year, government leaders will be looking for the most cost-effective means of operational stability for their level of government.
Cutter Predicts ... Cutter Experts’ Trends and Predictions for 2014
Once again, the end of the year has snuck up! That means it’s time for our annual Cutter Predicts … series. Below, Cutter Fellows and Senior Consultants showcase their visions of 2014 (and in some cases, beyond).
All Gov’t Levels to Search for Cost-Effective Operational Stability by Mark PetersonThis coming year, government leaders will be looking for the most cost-effective means of operational stability for their level of government.