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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A schism has been brewing between traditional RDBMS (relational database management system) fans and proponents of the MapReduce data-crunching technology pioneered by Google and made popular by the open source Hadoop framework.

Abstract

Quite simply, the Web has a huge impact on our personal and professional lives. It will continue to do so, becoming the dominant platform for everything from communication to business transaction processing. Within a decade, the personal/professional merger will be complete with virtually no distinctions between what we do to live and what we do to work.

It cannot be said any plainer: we have significantly underestimated the impact that the Web is having -- and will continue to have -- on our personal and professional lives. Within five years, the Web will become the dominant personal and professional platform for communication, collaboration, entertainment, learning, and all forms of business transaction processing.

Research & Analysis

With insight gleaned on technologies, strategies and new tools in the business intelligence, data integration, and collaboration space, your organization will improve the way it views, shares and leverages its corporate knowledge and critical business data.

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Organizations that invest in product and process projects must have a plan for investing in these projects. The human resources needed to staff these projects almost always exceed the human resources available.

Organizations that invest in product and process projects must have a plan for investing in these projects. The human resources needed to staff proposed projects almost always exceed the human resources available. How should an organization decide which projects should be staffed and which shouldn't?

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The key technical barrier to capitalizing software components is our insistence on defining them as use-as-is, encapsulated executables.

Capital assets are long-term investments whose ROIs are expected to more than repay their capital. Conventional software components rarely satisfy this definition. A prominent reason is that our industry demands components be used as is, much like physical parts. Yet unlimited malleability is software's greatest asset (and its greatest liability).