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.
Insight
Complexity exists everywhere. Would it not be helpful to understand specific kinds of complex situations where the services of architects are particularly valuable? This would help enterprises use architects' capabilities more effectively.
In June 2014, I discussed some of the possibilities the commercial use of drones offers. Since then, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), after several years of study, has finally issued proposed guidelines for the commercial use of drones in the US. Moreover, the FAA appears to be more receptive to commercial drone usage, and we are now seeing an increase in their use by companies, government agencies, and researchers.
This Executive Update surveys how major enterprise application vendors are harnessing mobile technology, beginning with SAP and Oracle.
Data generated by sensor-enabled devices is making it possible for organizations to measure activities and behavior that was not really practical before the advent of smartphones, wearables (e.g., watches, bracelets, anklets, and smart clothing), and other connected devices. In short, connected devices are leading to new applications and larger and richer data sets.
The governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) area has been developing for the past several years toward a more centralized and comprehensive approach. Historically, it has always encompassed an area of large data. Today, it is about to become a focus for big data.
If we use measures properly, we do so to improve our business, organization, or our lives. In this respect, there are many times when having some data is not better than having none. Given that all data could possibly be erroneous to some extent, what to do?
Business rules and logic change at a faster pace than many other architectural components. So it is not surprising that one of the long-standing objectives in enterprise architecture (EA) has been to separate the more dynamic parts from those elements that are more stable. There are various ways to achieve this, and in this Executive Report we examine two options: business rules and complex event processing (CEP).
Business rules and complex event processing (CEP) are technologies that have been around for some time now. Both technologies provide options to support one of the long-standing objectives in enterprise architecture (EA): to adapt and accommodate rapid-pace business change with a constant, stable, and sustainable architectural foundation. The accompanying Executive Report examines how we can use techniques in enterprise architecture to provide a solid basis for supporting business rules and CEP.