The Impact of AI in Education
Aswani Kumar Cherukuri, Annapurna Jonnalagadda, San Murugesan
AI can help students receive personalized lessons, provide educators with deep insights into students’ learning styles, revolutionize skills improvement for professionals, and lower the cost of education. This Advisor lays out the key benefits AI-based education offers over traditional instruction modes.
What Makes Quantum Computing So Different?
Joseph Byrum
This Advisor takes a brief look at how quantum computers work. You'll discover how quantum processors evaluate multiple variables simultaneously, which means simulations can include as many interacting variables as there are qubits.
Enterprise IPA Adoption: Still Too Early to Measure Success
Curt Hall
From mid-2020 to early 2021, Cutter Consortium conducted a survey on how organizations are adopting, or planning to adopt, intelligent process automation (IPA). In this Advisor, we examine survey findings pertaining to how organizations view the success of their IPA efforts so far and whether they believe the technology will eventually live up to expectations.
IPA in the Enterprise, Part VIII: Major Challenges
Curt Hall
In Part VIII of this Executive Update series on IPA in the enterprise, we examine findings concerning the major challenges organizations indicate are hindering their efforts to apply IPA.
3 Areas of Potential Failure in Digital Transformations
Eric Willeke
Pursuing digital transformation involves a deep focus on the nature of the data being used in the organization, the services being exposed around that data, and what business use cases are being improved and reimagined through the use and recomposition of these new services. This Advisor explores three common failure areas that emerge in transformations.
3 Areas of Potential Failure in Digital Transformations
Eric Willeke
Pursuing digital transformation involves a deep focus on the nature of the data being used in the organization, the services being exposed around that data, and what business use cases are being improved and reimagined through the use and recomposition of these new services. This Advisor explores three common failure areas that emerge in transformations.
How Business Architecture Can Help Define Data Architecture
William Ulrich
In this webinar, William Ulrich shows you how you can define and validate your organization’s data architecture to inform data transformation requirements, and provide a foundation for IT investments.
Blockchain and Gig Economy Fuel Post-Covid Growth, Driving Sustainability with Architecture, more.
Cutter Consortium
How can you leverage blockchain and a new pool of gig economy entrepreneurs to craft and enable new winning business models? How does taking an architectural approach to sustainability initiatives improve your chances of success? Find out all this and more in the latest issue of The Cutter Edge.
AI, Digital Identification & Fraud Prevention Trends
Curt Hall
Higher expectations of customer service and trends in online fraud are forcing government agencies and businesses alike to modernize their digital identity management systems as more people engage with online services. As we explore in this Advisor, this includes employing applications — in the form of cloud platforms and services licensed from commercial providers — that integrate machine learning (ML), machine vision, and biometrics combined with mobile access in order to automate the verification and authentication of government-issued IDs and other documents.
AI Adoption in Business Processes: The Agile Way
Bhuvan Unhelkar
In this Executive Update we explore Agile principles and practices under the lens of business adoption of artificial intelligence.
Using Citizen Development to Transform Your Organization: 7 Key Recommendations
Noel Carroll, Liam Ó Móráin, Dave Garrett, Arjun Jamnadass
Citizen development promises to improve enterprise productivity and accelerate value delivery, enabling organizations to achieve outcomes more quickly. This Advisor presents seven key recommendations for organizations undergoing or planning to pursue a digital transformation and adopt a citizen development (CD) initiative.
Using Citizen Development to Transform Your Organization: 7 Key Recommendations
Noel Carroll, Liam Ó Móráin, Dave Garrett, Arjun Jamnadass
Citizen development promises to improve enterprise productivity and accelerate value delivery, enabling organizations to achieve outcomes more quickly. This Advisor presents seven key recommendations for organizations undergoing or planning to pursue a digital transformation and adopt a citizen development (CD) initiative.
How Much Testing Is Really Needed?
Tom Bragg
Time and money are never unlimited, but failing to establish cutoffs for testing is a common mistake that relates directly to how much testing is needed. If the project does not establish cutoff dates for testing, nobody can plan defect work because new bugs will always be arriving on an unpredictable schedule.
How Business Leaders Can Adapt to the Quantum Era
Joseph Byrum
The move from conventional computing to quantum computing won’t be like a simple change in technology providers. Quantum processors use a wholly new way of solving complex problems; as we explore in this Advisor, that requires a new way of thinking about problems. Software programs designed for conventional computers aren’t going to work.
How Business Leaders Can Adapt to the Quantum Era
Joseph Byrum
The move from conventional computing to quantum computing won’t be like a simple change in technology providers. Quantum processors use a wholly new way of solving complex problems; as we explore in this Advisor, that requires a new way of thinking about problems. Software programs designed for conventional computers aren’t going to work.
Security Architecture Coherence
Balaji Prasad
If enterprises must be agile as well as secure, there cannot be daylight between security design and the broader architecture and purpose of the enterprise. Many enterprises may need to take a step back, survey the security landscape, and evaluate the level of coherence of their security architecture.
How Cataloging Can Support the Creation of a Data Supermarket
Myles Suer, John Wills
Finding and leveraging the right data is key to achieving strategic advantage. Creating a data supermarket of usable data can help businesses make critical decisions, and a system called cataloging makes this data supermarket possible. This Advisor explores how cataloging enables the connection of different elements of a data pipeline to provide a more orderly and efficient management of data, especially as the volume and variety of data increases.
Greening IT: Need & Opportunities
San Murugesan
More than a decade ago, Cutter Consortium introduced the concept of green IT in an Executive Report and outlined IT’s role in creating a sustainable environment. The topic has become all the more important and relevant today. In this Report, we provide an updated, holistic view of greening IT and how we can — and should — embrace IT to address the environmental challenges we face.
Greening IT: Need & Opportunities
San Murugesan
More than a decade ago, Cutter Consortium introduced the concept of green IT in an Executive Report and outlined IT’s role in creating a sustainable environment. The topic has become all the more important and relevant today. In this Report, we provide an updated, holistic view of greening IT and how we can — and should — embrace IT to address the environmental challenges we face.
Greening IT: Need & Opportunities — Executive Summary
San Murugesan
The accompanying Executive Report, an update to a previous Report, outlines IT’s environmental impacts, discusses three key facets of green IT, and shows how we can go green with our IT systems and applications. The Report highlights opportunities for IT-enabled solutions and assistance to better sustain and manage our environment and presents useful insights to help make smart green IT decisions.
Greening IT: Need & Opportunities — Executive Summary
San Murugesan
The accompanying Executive Report, an update to a previous Report, outlines IT’s environmental impacts, discusses three key facets of green IT, and shows how we can go green with our IT systems and applications. The Report highlights opportunities for IT-enabled solutions and assistance to better sustain and manage our environment and presents useful insights to help make smart green IT decisions.
Sustainability Through Business Architecture, Part II: Circular Economy Transition Via Business Model Transformation
Giovanni Traverso, William Ulrich
In Part II of this Executive Update series on business architecture and sustainability, we detail business architecture’s role in transitioning to the circular economy while concurrently delivering related business strategies that include opening up new markets and new revenue streams.
The Auto Industry: IT Needs to Check Its Engine Assumption Light
Robert Charette
The next decade in the auto industry will be intriguing to watch as the risk-reward equation between electric vehicles and internal combustion engine vehicles continually shifts. New strategic inflection points can be expected to emerge as both battery and IT improve, with the latter allowing the software-defined car to become an everyday reality.
Ingredients for Enterprise Agility, Part VI: Pointless Agile Certifications
Jon Ward
In this Advisor, Jon Ward outlines how learning is blocked by Agile certifications and explains that teams must understand Agile theory to improve continuously. He recommends developing in-house training capabilities as a more effective approach to learning.
Managing Technical Debt for Application Modernization
Dan Sturtevant
In this on-demand webinar presented by Dan Sturtevant, you will learn how to decide to move forward with a legacy system based on technical, financial, and risk considerations implicit in the technical health of the software asset; methods to systematically drive architectural improvement and technical transformation of legacy systems; how to identify, evaluate, and remediate hidden modernization blockers within the software asset’s architecture; and more.