Each year, research organizations publish lists of the top technologies to watch in the new year. Many of these trendy “celebrity” technologies appear on every list we see. But what about the ones that don’t always make the lists but are important to our personal and professional lives? In this Executive Update, we present a list of seven underdogs — technologies to watch closely. Look out — they just might become “wonderdogs” in 2021 and beyond.

How a business architecture can help organizations achieve UN SDGs, cloud-based remote access software as an alternative to VPNs, and more.

Increasingly, government agencies, businesses, universities, and other organizations are working together to build AI systems that analyze geo-mapped and other location-based data. One such impressive new ML application uses Uber driver data to track and alleviate urban traffic congestion. It is designed to give urban transportation analysts and traffic engineers access to information about city traffic patterns in order to relieve bottlenecks, chokepoints and other problems.

Even when responses to diversity, equity, and inclusion disparities are obligatory, we’re still missing the mark. Truth is, we have most of the pieces. We’re not apply­ing the knowledge that we have, which is why we’re missing the big picture. This Advisor considers how businesses navigate employment.

One of the key advances in software development in recent years has been the automation of many tasks and services. Contemporary software automation goes far beyond simple task runners and is now beginning to augment artificial intelligence and machine learning into the process, which further widens the scope of what can be automated. However, not all tasks in software development are well suited to automation, and not all tasks should be automated. Where do you draw the line, and where is software automation most useful for developers?

While every UN member state should use the SDGs for framing their agendas and political policies, the responsibility and potential for meeting these goals also lies with every individual and organization. This includes governments, non-profit organizations, and even for-profit businesses, which can be a powerful mechanism for change.

It takes a lot more than rugged and hardened data architecture to ensure data quality. One way of thinking about data quality issues as they relate to data architecture is to examine and address them through a layered approach described in this Advisor.

In this on demand webinar, Vince Kellen shares a new approach to data analytics, what it has generated for the University of CA San Diego, and the lessons they’ve learned that you, too, can adopt. 

The unemployment and income instability caused by COVID-19 has resulted in many people having difficulty meeting their credit obligations and many industries struggling to run their operations. Worldwide, governments and businesses have taken steps with exceptional speed to match this pandemic‘s unprecedented nature.

How do you implement low-code/no-code solutions? What are the important priorities that ensure LC/NC success? In this interactive virtual meeting, you'll learn from Greg Smith, Michael Papadopoulos, and other participants, and share your experiences.

In this on-demand webinar, you'll explore how enterprises can leverage the low-code/no-code (LC/NC) solutions that have relatively low learning curves and provide tools to easily create software to grow and transform the business.

Often overlooked as financial filings to meet regulatory requirements, company annual reports provide an endless well of insight about how and how well companies articulate and integrate business strategy with risk management and performance measurement.

Unless an organization pursues a strategy of innovation for its own sake, then digital era products and services are still subject to the marketing lifecycle with profitability and reward appearing in the market growth and maturity stages. This means that organizations need to create structures and a culture within which they can simultaneously innovate and deliver the new inventions. There needs to be a marriage of innovation expense control and revenue generation. So how does a modern leader engender such a culture?

In this Advisor, we take a look at how COVID-19 is affecting automation efforts, based on findings from an ongoing Cutter Consortium survey on intelligent process automation.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a bold global agenda helping the world move beyond traditional indicators such as GDP growth and per capita income to a broader set of objectives that include well-being, environmental sustainability, and social fairness. In this Executive Update, we describe the individual and organizational benefits of contributing to the SDGs as well as how organizations can leverage business architecture to achieve these goals.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a bold global agenda helping the world move beyond traditional indicators such as GDP growth and per capita income to a broader set of objectives that include well-being, environmental sustainability, and social fairness. In this Executive Update, we describe the individual and organizational benefits of contributing to the SDGs as well as how organizations can leverage business architecture to achieve these goals.

In nature, apparently robust systems can be disrupted by a single new invasive species, while other systems can retain their resilience despite a sustained assault. The behavior of such sys­tems can be explained by the interdisciplinary theory of complex adaptive systems (CAS). This Advisor describes how we can use CAS theory to support organizational change.

Discuss the challenges and considerations of data and digital architectures and how they can help facilitate value stream enablement and the customer journeys that companies are building to stay in touch with changing client expectations and user experiences.

This edition of The Cutter Edge: how to leverage low-code/no-code (LC/NC) solutions to accelerate the pace of digital innovation and transformation, why we can't have diversity without both equity and inclusion, and more!

This edition of The Cutter Edge: how to leverage low-code/no-code (LC/NC) solutions to accelerate the pace of digital innovation and transformation, why we can't have diversity without both equity and inclusion, and more!

Our findings indicate that 2021 looks to be the year that organizations really get serious with their IPA efforts. Consequently, we should expect to see more organizations move beyond the experimentation stages and start developing and deploying new IPA applications into production environments.

Many classic change management models fail to consider the significant dimensions of technology and innovation. This Advisor shares a case study involving a bank that devel­oped key performance indicators to track all dimensions of change, enabling the bank to constantly improve its capability to implement change.

In this issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal (CBTJ), we examine the role that fintech will play in facilitating economic recovery and growth.

In my last Advisor, “Using Heat Maps to Better Drive the Rationalization of Your IT Landscape,” I introduced the use of business capability heat maps to better focus on business areas that require attention. This Advisor further illustrates the approach and offers next steps in sharing your organization’s evolution with stakeholders.

Luke Merriman discusses the accelerated growth of e-commerce, which has been brought about due to COVID-19. Specifically, Merriman focuses on online classified marketplaces and looks to identify the changes required by these marketplaces to capitalize on the growth in e-commerce. He presents detailed results of a survey carried out by Trustap, an Irish startup specializing in escrow-style payments for online marketplaces.