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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In January, I discussed key developments with IBM's Watson natural language understanding and analytics question-and-answering system (see "IBM Bets the Future on Watson").

This Executive Update shares an approach on how you can enable self-service for a specific BI end-user community. The approach involves first assessing the analytical appetite of the user group and positioning those professionals in a three-tiered pyramid before applying the appropriate technology strategies.

Enterprise software has come in waves over the years. The first wave introduced mainframe applications that rested on the business premise that automating certain routine operations could power a large company to new levels of productivity and efficiency.

This Executive Update examines key trends and developments around the application of predictive maintenance in industrial and enterprise operations and discusses a real-world application example intended to optimize earth-moving equipment used in mining operations.

Marketing has always been a first mover in digital technologies, being vital for monetization of all processes on the Web and leading the way for communications and service delivery.

Your organization has decided that it wants to build a mobile application. Congratulations! How exactly are you going to go about accomplishing that?

The growth of mobile technology and devices such as smartphones has created a new phenomenon for communication and deeply changed the way businesses process data. One such phenomenon that has emerged in the business environment is "bring your own device" (BYOD), which means that employees use their personal devices to access company resources for work, inside or outside the organizational environment.