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
Agility is far too precious to be treated only as a software development method. Instead, it plays a significant role in rendering an entire organization agile. Such organizational agility, however, requires a combination of agile values and principles together with formal business analysis (BA) work.
Cutter Business Technology Strategies Director Ron Blitstein, Piet Ribbers, and I are working toward a book on the characteristics of successful and effective relationships between IT and business organizations and their managers.
Executive Update
Real-Time CEP, Big Data, and the Cloud
The enterprise Big Data landscape includes various types of data, including historical, transactional, images, and message-based streams. In turn, this data can be structured or unstructured. Importantly, the treatment and analysis of data is different for different types of data (see Figure 1). For example:
In my last Advisor ("Cloud Architecture: Leveraging Strategies, Blueprints, and Roadmaps -- What's Different Today?"), I shared some common chal
Executive Report
The Impact of HTML5 on Enterprise Applications
Abstract
For the past 20-plus years, the Web has been based on a document-centric model despite recent workarounds to provide enterprise-quality applications.
Executive Summary
The Impact of HTML5 on Enterprise Applications
For the past 20-plus years, the Web has been based on a document-centric model, despite recent workarounds to provide enterprise-quality applications, new types of user experiences, and multimedia and real-time capabilities. With a renewed focus on applications, programming interfaces, enhanced graphics, offline behavior, and modern communications, the Web is entering its next phase of life.
Consumerization is the trend for new technologies to first emerge in the consumer space and subsequently make their way into the enterprise world. But what exactly is it in the consumer world that is making users demand similar things from enterprise IT? In this article, I will focus on what the consumerization of IT means for enterprise business applications and explore the underlying user motivation for this trend. Before we jump into that, though, I'll provide a little background on what's driving this change.