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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The real value of the Internet of Things (IoT) is not achieved by connecting individual sensor-enabled devices separately to the Internet or mobile network.

Data integration costs consume so much of computing budgets and resources that there is little left over for taking advantage of new opportunities and proactively managing change. This Executive Update takes a frank look at where the software industry stands in addressing the integration barrier.

This Executive Update discusses how to pragmatically implement semantic metadata techniques to improve data integration.

In this Update, we provide a few tips for making sense of this inferential software and systems environment, track down resources that you may already have in your organization to work in this new environment, and address the challenges entailed of three new dynamic software languages.

Taken together, Head, Heart, and Hands (HHH) form an holistic, integrated framework that enables organizations to review, assess, and improve human-centered processes and constructs. It can be applied vertically from the senior executive to the front-line staff level, and horizontally across many points in an applicable value chain.

The latest advertisements from Microsoft comparing its new Windows 8-powered Surface Pro 3 tablet with Apple's MacBook Air laptop have me thinking about the market for tablets in the enterprise.

Database thinking tends to go in waves. In the 1960s and 1970s there was an enormous amount of imagination and experimentation with various different types of database models: hierarchical, network, inverted file, and relational.

It is now practical to monitor and control machines, devices, processes, and workers remotely through the use of networked sensors and software applied in enterprise and industrial operations such as manufacturing and process control, energy production and utilities, transportation, healthcare, agriculture and farming, and the public sector. This Executive Report examines the "Industrial Internet," focusing on how organizations should utilize Industrial Internet technologies. The report examines the vision and benefits, principle application areas, enabling technologies, and products and services for building and managing connected machines, devices, and products. It considers issues and impediments to Industrial Internet adoption and implementation as well. The report also provides real-world examples and applications.