This Advisor explores the advantages and disadvantages of recent technological advancements in banking, beyond automated teller machines and online banking.

In this Advisor, we describe some of the different forms of discounts available from cloud vendors in an effort to translate the cloud vendors’ terms into well-known financial concepts. 

At certain rarefied levels of architecture, an architect may be operating in a mode that is closer to artistry rather than design. It involves weaving people’s mental models with the conceptual and logical models that represent things that might be on the ground today as well as tomorrow, so that architectural ideas find their way into decisions and actions that change the landscape and outcomes sought by the enterprise.

This week's edition of The Cutter Edge explores why the automotive industry must take action now to be prepared for the post-covid, "new normal", how digital twin technology will enable businesses to meet the challenges of the 21st century, and more!

This Advisor explores the results of our recent “Intelligent Process Automation in the Enterprise” survey measuring the benefits and ROI from IPA practices. This slice of data was analyzed to determine whether or not organizations' IPA initiatives are currently meeting or beating expectations, and the reasoning behind our respondents answers.

In Part III of this Executive Update series, we show how the four dimensions of information superiority (reach, richness, agility, and assurance) impact building an effective roadmap toward creating a data-driven business.

In Part III of this Executive Update series, we show how the four dimensions of information superiority (reach, richness, agility, and assurance) impact building an effective roadmap toward creating a data-driven business.

This Advisor explores how organizations can utilize digital twins to see their products in action, over time, when subjected to physical environments, as well as visualize exactly when and where maintenance is needed. This lets product developers close the loop on a product’s design simulations and helps engineers make more informed choices for future designs.

People in technical roles are uniquely qualified to contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

In the face of COVID-19 over the past year, companies across the globe have had to act quickly to adapt to new realities — or risk certain ruin. It is no longer “business as usual.” The global pandemic has undeniably changed the status quo of HR management. In this Executive Update, we reflect on the use of technology to enable HR’s new, critical role in light of social distancing and smart working.

In this Advisor, the introduction to the Cutter Business Technology Journal issue addressing digital twins, you'll explore the benefits, opportunities, and challenges of this next phase of digital transformation.

This Advisor explores how to fine-tune the processes of strategic planning, initiative delivery, technology optimization, and portfolio management/budgeting process to achieve the right balance between up-front planning and agility.

Mike Rosen explores the circular economy concept, its broad impact on business and operating models, and the role of architects in facilitating the shift to a circular economy.

This Advisor discusses how data doesn't really "go" bad, but the use to which it was put was dramatically changed and that new use drove the collection of even more categories and volumes of personal behavior data, without a comprehensive ethical review. In this series, we’ll point out what can go wrong with data — and what to do about it.

Cutter Consortium conducted a survey, along with a set of interviews of participants, from mid-2020 to early 2021 on how organizations are adopting, or planning to adopt, intelligent process automation (IPA). We also sought to identify important trends, issues, and other considerations organizations are encountering, or foresee encountering, in their efforts. Here in Part III of this Executive Update series, we examine findings pertaining to surveyed organizations’ plans for establishing budgets to support their IPA initiatives.

Data architect Richard Veryard explains the four dimensions of data and why they are critical to achieving information superiority — the idea that the ability to collect, process, and disseminate an uninterrupted flow of information can give you operational and strategic advantage.

This Executive Update seeks to help IT better advocate for cloud. First, we offer a solution to cloud’s most significant financial risk. Next, we translate some IT concepts into their financial equivalents.

This Executive Update seeks to help IT better advocate for cloud. First, we offer a solution to cloud’s most significant financial risk. Next, we translate some IT concepts into their financial equivalents.

It's widely believed that creep — changes to requirements that supposedly have been settled — is due to unclear requirements. This Advisor looks at project creep differently, enabling us to see that most creep involves requirements that should and could have been identified but weren’t, and that this happens so often that it’s a certainty rather than a risk.

Last year, Barry M. O’Reilly predicted that 2020 would be “the year that Agile got found out.” Well, we all know that 2020 took an unexpected turn. So, in this Executive Update, let’s look deeper into the outcome of my prediction and explore how Agile and agility, especially in the face of a global pandemic, has truly panned out since my “before the world changed” assertion.

Last year, Barry M. O’Reilly predicted that 2020 would be “the year that Agile got found out.” Well, we all know that 2020 took an unexpected turn. So, in this Executive Update, let’s look deeper into the outcome of my prediction and explore how Agile and agility, especially in the face of a global pandemic, has truly panned out since my “before the world changed” assertion.

This Advisor explores an intelligent system using AI tech­nologies to automate data extraction to any one of many structured formats. The system performs minimal manual annotations to capture the semantics of specific sections for any particular document tem­plate. Once that has been done, millions of documents can be fed through the system to extract information automatically. This Advisor provides a brief look at that system.

The role of data architects is sometimes vaguely defined and tends to fall on the shoulders of senior business analysts, data scientists, or database and ETL specialists. As with any kind of architecture, designing for uncertainty is a key requirement with data architecture.

Łukasz Paciorkowski and Piotr Karolczak present a digital twin maturity model that can help organizations make better decisions around the structure of digital twins applied to industrial applications. The model presents several capabilities that organizations can explore across several maturity levels.