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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In a global economy that is hesitantly emerging from recession, organizations continue to strive to respond to the financial difficulties while delivering excellence for their customers. In this climate, core/context business strategy takes center stage.

The most recent major acquisition taking place in the BI and data warehousing market has IBM buying Netezza Corporation, a data warehousing appliance pioneer, for about US $1.7 billion. This deal is significant for several reasons. First, the market for data warehousing and BI appliances is hot, and Netezza's products are well established.

I recently watched a talk by a self-appointed agile "expert" who tried to explain the key elements of Scrum.

I've noticed a few blogs and articles recently that talk about the convergence of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and enterprise architecture (EA), even going so far as to predict that there will no longer be a difference between them; they will be merged into one and the same.

Do you think data mining and predictive analytics are too complex to deliver via the cloud? Better think again, because that's what Predixion Software is now doing. Moreover, what Predixion has done with its Predixion Insight offering is not simply host some complex data-mining workbench in the cloud.

The confluence of cloud computing, smart mobile devices, and social networks is usually discussed in terms of its transformative effect. The cloud enables offering products and platforms as services. Smart mobile devices consume those services and contribute to them in an "always-on" mode.

Security and data privacy/regulatory considerations are two of the biggest bottlenecks standing in the way of more organizations adopting cloud computing.