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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Social Media Due Diligence: Selecting the Right Social Listening Partner

Steve Andriole

Executive Update

A Practical Guide to the Most Useful Architectural Frameworks: Part II -- The Architecture Development Process Framework

Roger Evernden

In Part I of this five-part Executive Update series,1 we looked at the framework that keeps track of all work products, deliverables, and reference material used by

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Corporate Use of Data Virtualization

Curt Hall

Data virtualization1 is touted as applicable for a range of business operations and applications, ranging from those associated with data analysis, analytics, and information management to business process management (BPM) and enterprise integration, portals, cloud services, and enterpri

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Corporate Use of NoSQL DBs in Support of Analytics Efforts

Curt Hall

A recent Cutter Consortium survey (conducted July through September 2013) of 39 end-user organizations worldwide gives us some idea of the extent to which organizations are using NoSQL databases to support analytics.

Executive Update

Big Data in the Enterprise: Part I -- Hadoop

Curt Hall

During July-September 2013, Cutter Consortium conducted a survey asking 39 end-user organizations worldwide about various issues pertaining to BI, data warehousing (DW), analytics, and Big Data practices.

Executive Update

Emergent Agility: Best Practice Equivalence

Brian Dooley

Best practices are prescriptive, and Agile development opposes prescription. So, in this sense, there are no Agile best practices. Managers faced with a need to impose new processes are always in search of guidance, however, and need to know that they are doing what they have set out to do -- or at least are on track to do so. Guidance, whether it is called "best practices," "good things to do," or "useful approaches," is still necessary.