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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"Big Data" was one of the hottest IT buzzwords of 2011, and you can expect the hype only to increase this year. BI vendors, the IT press, and analytics gurus go on and on about the need for organizations to meet their Big Data requirements. All the excitement around Big Data is not just hype, however.
Executive Update
HPC Steroid for Big Data
Today's unprecedented growth rate of data (structured and unstructured) necessitates faster and cost-effective processing for near-real-time decision making. Over the years, many have viewed high-performance computing (HPC) as a monster too complex and too unaffordable for processing large data. However, that viewpoint is changing rapidly due to open source innovations such as Apache Hadoop, the advent of the cloud, and simple and affordable platforms like Microsoft.
Executive Update
HPC Steroid for Big Data
In my last Advisor (see "Big or Little, Devops Needs a Complete Picture," 23 November 2011), I promised to provide examples of using systems thinking to
Welcome to the seventh-anniversary edition of my enterprise architect's New Year's resolutions. I hope it will give you food for thought and some inspiration for architectural growth in 2012.
