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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This Executive Summary and its accompanying Executive Report set the record straight by explaining why IT organizations feel the need to justify enterprise architecture, and what we can do to prove the value from EA.

In this on-demand webinar, Professor Giancarlo Succi, Cutter Senior Consultant, covers a range of topics that will help you understand the mobile environment, the characteristics that make it so unique and how they contribute to a new business model. He will explain what channels are available for distribution to your organization’s mobile applications. And Succi also reviews various strategies to monetize your mobile apps.

In the first two Executive Updates in this series,1 we discussed the importance of using a root question for your metrics and of "staying out of the kitchen." Recall I asked you to think in the abstract rather than going to the data level and to focus on the customer's viewpoint and avoid playing with efficiency measures.

For years, the major BI vendors (e.g., IBM-Cognos, Oracle, SAP Business Objects, SAS, and Microstrategy) have offered components that add mobile capabilities to their BI platforms, business performance management, and other analytic products.

Abstract

Measuring the value of IT can best be determined by building an IT investment portfolio where customer goals drive the IT projects.

Measuring the value of IT is something that every CIO and IT customer has been asking how to do for years.

Everyone talks about social media, mobile, analytics, and the cloud (SMAC) profoundly impacting the enterprise. But while these technologies hold tremendous promise, each presents its own issues and considerations when it comes to its utilization for business.

Organizations make substantial investments in projects to achieve business goals and seize opportunities. The more effective those projects, the sooner they realize results. Increase the speed and success of your projects by making data quality and data governance activities an integral part of the solution (or software or systems) development lifecycle, or SDLC. This Executive Report discusses the critical activities needed for both sequential and agile methodologies. Including these will also improve the quality of the data that matters most, transforming it into a valuable asset.