Industry
The status quo is changing for most industries as boundaries blur between fields due to innovation, disruption, and digitally-driven change. That’s why keeping abreast of emerging trends in sectors outside your own is vital, not only because your organization’s competitive landscape may be changing, but because there are universal, strategic lessons to learn from the opportunities and threats convergence poses for every marketplace. We examine emerging trends and the impact of evolving tech in key fields such as healthcare, financial services, telco, energy, mobility, and more to help you capitalize on the possibilities of the future while managing the challenges of today.
Insight
Based on replies from 240 respondents, the main conclusions of the survey are as follows:
Imagine you are an IT director in the e-commerce unit of a large financial institution and you have an urgent deadline. By the end of this quarter, you will need to have a Web-based reporting and transaction system up for use by key clients of your Capital Markets unit.
Executive Report
Internet Banking: An EJB Case Study
In the past, large-scale commerce systems were monolithic applications that were tough to build and difficult to maintain. Today, the global economy created by the Internet has created a great need for technology that allows commerce sites to be developed quickly, yet exhibit the scalability and reliability features of traditional enterprise-class deployments.
Enron Energy Systems, Inc. (EES) of Houston, Texas, USA, is a reseller of electricity and natural gas, providing energy facility outsourcing solutions to commercial and industrial customers across the nation. EES offers services such as custom billing, equipment financing and maintenance, usage monitoring, and consultation.
Executive Update
Online Acceleration: An E-Business Case Study
This Executive Update provides a summary of the information presented by Hoa Nguyen at Cutter Consortium's recent symposium on e-business strategy. Nguyen presented a case study on Case Shiller Weiss (CSW), an organization that specializes in the research and analysis of the residential real estate market.
Executive Update
Distributed Computing in the Healthcare Insurance Industry
In this Executive Update, Patrick McNeese describes United Wisconsin Services, Inc.'s (UWSI) current distributed computing initiatives and plans for future development. As the parent company for a group of heath insurance companies, including Blue Cross/Blue Shield United of Wisconsin, UWSI is turning to distributed computing to improve customer services, solve Y2000 noncompliancy issues, and comply with proposed guidelines from the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA).
Change is permanent in today's government and business environment, and the Ministry of Justice in Western Australia is not immune to this social phenomenon.
IT managers know that developing good software is hard. It is even harder to coordinate business requirements and software development. As companies begin to transition from more conventional ways of architecting applications to distributed, component-based designs, this process is likely to become even harder.