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.
Insight
Back in January, when discussing trends for predictive analytics in 2012, I predicted that some of the issues holding organizations back from realizing their predictive analytics dreams would be offset by new options for implementation (see "The Year Ahead: Will 2012 Be a Breakout Year for Predictive Analyt
Standards in the cloud computing space are one of the major drivers affecting ongoing adoption. Attractive financial and service delivery models can only deliver business results if the underlying technology portfolio can interoperate effectively. This article frames cloud computing as the latest generation of extended value chains that require standards to enable providers to interact with their clients.
STANDARDS IN TECHNOLOGY: THAT'S THE OLD WAY TO MAKE PROGRESS, RIGHT?
In the last several hundred years of humankind, technology advancement has played an important role in the overall advancement of civilization. Electricity, communications, and computing are all 100% technology-based innovations. And in these fields, there are implicit requirements for standardization.
WHAT IS CLOUD REALLY?
Richard Stallman1 is the founder of GNU Linux and the Free Software Foundation and one of the key experts in the field of open computing. In June 2012, I interviewed him for my blog, Watalon.com. The aim of the interview was to get Stallman's views on cloud computing and how open standards should be built around the cloud.
A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
-- Dorothea Brande
