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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An important development bound to positively impact the use of the open source Apache Hadoop technology in the traditional enterprise is the introduction of packaged Big Data appliances from the enterprise hardware and software vendors. These offerings -- from Oracle, EMC Greenplum, Dell, and NetApp -- bundle Hadoop distributions along with database, storage connectors, and other software for integrating Hadoop applications with various data sources and into an organization's data center.
Learn why "Big Agile" requires much more than methodical rigor, the various aspects of implementation that you need to pay close attention to — items that are beyond the team level. And, explore the practices used to implement "Big Agile," relating examples from deployments.
THE TREND
Social media has -- in just a few short years -- become a major driver of operational and strategic decisions that cross-cut corporate awareness, brands, customer service, product development, reputation management, and, ultimately, business purpose. Social media impacts the top and bottom lines of all companies that sell and service anything.
There is big data about Big Data. Every genre of publication (trade press, mainstream business media, newspapers, journals of science for scientists, and journals of science for nonscientists) has run or is running cover articles on Big Data.1 Each article opines about the game-changing and transformative impacts associated with Big Data.
When it comes to making long-term predictions, most so-called experts fare no better than "dart-throwing monkeys." Or so Nobel prize-winning author Daniel Kahneman claimed in a recent interview1 about his best-selling book Thinking Fast and Slow.
Stating that the "cloud" will be a trend in 2012 is sort of like saying it's going to snow in Alaska. By the looks of the relentless marketing hype from everything that breathes and eats in IT vendor-land, one could argue we are enduring a cloud blizzard. Trend spotting this is not.