Strategic advice to leverage new technologies
Technology is at the heart of nearly every enterprise, enabling new business models and strategies, and serving as the catalyst to industry convergence. Leveraging the right technology can improve business outcomes, providing intelligence and insights that help you make more informed and accurate decisions. From finding patterns in data through data science, to curating relevant insights with data analytics, to the predictive abilities and innumerable applications of AI, to solving challenging business problems with ML, NLP, and knowledge graphs, technology has brought decision-making to a more intelligent level. Keep pace with the technology trends, opportunities, applications, and real-world use cases that will move your organization closer to its transformation and business goals.
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This Executive Update explores how some organizations are using the data lake as the foundation for their enterprise data exploration platform.
Watson Analytics provides immediate analytic processing from the cloud for business-related queries. The most interesting aspect, however, is not in its application of big data to the solution of queries -- a process that is handled by IBM's Cognos TM1 as a back end -- but in its application in simplifying the user interface and making analytics accessible to a wider range of business professionals.
Containerization gives an organization more than just a reduction in redundancy by eliminating resource-hogging services that do not need to be replicated.
This Advisor explores some of the exhibits highlighted at Internet of Things World 2015, such as Intel's interactive model of a smart city, Samsung's Artik hardware-software modules for IoT devices, and Microsoft's Azure IoT Suite.
"The annual IT trends issue deals with a very complex and hard- to-predict environment that is extremely important to our daily experience and endeavors."
—Joseph Feller, Editor
I was recently invited to give a technology forecast at a partner company's annual user conference. I agreed but made it very clear at the start of my presentation that I was going to provide the forecast in the style of Met Éireann.
Not so long ago, the top conferences attended by IT professionals revolved around organizations sharing arcane technical aspects of particular technologies or venues where manufacturers tipped their R&D hand to loyal purchasing departments. Some of these gatherings have gone by the wayside much like some of the information systems highlighted in them (e.g., COMDEX).
For me, there are a few key points coming out of this year's IT trends issue (or, more accurately, over the last several IT trends issues).