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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Advisor

Enterprise Architecture and Technology Roadmapping: The Next Big Thing in EA

Ken Orr

One of the hits that enterprise architecture has taken over the years is that while enterprise architecture studies produce interesting pictures, they often don't produce "actionable" information.

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When DW/BI Teams Go Agile: Four FAQs

Lynn Winterboer

Lynn Winterboer answers questions on user stories, how regulatory requirements play out in Agile DW/BI, examples of good acceptance criteria, and the recommended sprint length for DW teams.

Executive Update

Five Decision Points in a Customer Master Data Solution

Ramaswami Mohandoss

While there is no silver bullet for an ideal MDM solution, there are five crucial decision points in a customer MDM journey, and the decisions taken at those points become the defining moments of the solution. This Executive Update addresses those five decision points.

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Enterprise Architecture and Knowledge Management, Part II: Time, Scope, Risk, Knowledge Management, and Planning

Ken Orr

A while back, I was talking to an IT executive about a recent downsizing exercise that his company had gone through. As a result of an early buyout, the IT organization had persuaded 100+ people to take early retirement, which was roughly 10% of the IT group's full-time employees.

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The 4C Approach to Building a Social Media Strategy

Akshay Mathur, Jagdish Bhandarkar, Shanmugam Periasamy

Depending on their maturity (as determined by the Social Media Maturity Model we describe in Measuring the ROI of Social Media and Social Media Analysis Investments, companies can leverage the advantages of social media using the 4C strategy, which consists of Content, Communication, Community, and Collaboration (see Table 1):

Advisor

Smart Machines/Smart Networks: Enterprise Architecture in the Connected World

Ken Orr

Most current IT managers and enterprise architects have come up through the ranks of traditional programming, systems design, and systems analysis.

Article

Agile Architecture: Dodo Bird or Differentiator? -- Opening Statement

Sue McKinney

In this edition of Cutter IT Journal, we offer opinions and perspectives on how an Agile architecture increases the value teams deliver to their organizations. We also seek insight on the possible challenges and risks faced by project teams working within an Agile architecture framework, as well as specific practices that can ensure your team's Agile transformation executes smoothly.