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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Organizations have had the option of using high-performance analytic databases1 in public cloud environments like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platforms, among others, for several years now.

Last June I discussed how complex event processing (CEP)1 was receiving considerable interest from organizations due to its ability to increase operational efficiency by identifying and interpreting the effect of seemingly unrelated events taking place across the enterprise, and then notify

Gamification is a tech industry buzzword referring to the use of gaming techniques in non-game applications. Big Data refers to data having properties like huge volume, high velocity, variety, and variability. A lot of people are already talking about Big Data, but many people question what to do with this data and how to make actionable insights out of it.

Gamification is a tech industry buzzword referring to the use of gaming techniques in non-game applications. Big Data refers to data having properties like huge volume, high velocity, variety, and variability. A lot of people are already talking about Big Data, but many people question what to do with this data and how to make actionable insights out of it.

This Executive Report looks at the many new challenges social technologies pose for enterprise architecture -- around the use of social media in an enterprise context; challenges around ownership and control of social infrastructure that lies beyond the perimeter of an enterprise; and challenges around the nature of architecture components and the architecture landscape -- and what they mean for EA teams, the enterprise architecture, and the enterprise.

This Executive Summary and its accompanying Executive Report explain the challenges posed by social technologies and describe the role and response of EA teams in some leading organizations.

Agile business intelligence (BI) has become a convenient catchphrase for a variety of movements sweeping through the BI, analytics, and software development communities. Its goals are relatively clear, but methods of execution can be murky and wrapped up in a range of competing practices and orientations.

In his recent novel The Circle, Dave Eggers draws the picture of a fictitious Internet company called "The Circle" that has broken the anonymity of Internet communication and subsequently has bought Google, Twi